Couper of Gogar
This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern BWRGBGBKWBWGBKBWBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=778
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1886 The tartan was originally woven by Messrs Peter MacArthur of Hamilton, for the family of Couper of Gogar. Mr MacArthur said his records went back about 80 years for it, and that it was copied at the time from an old shawl or 'maud', so it is likely to be over 100 years old.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1886 — Couper of Gogar (register-of-tartans, record)
Originally woven by Peter MacArthur Ltd of Biggar (late of Hamilton). Mr MacArthur said it had been copied from an old shawl or 'maud' so it was at least 100 years old at the time (what time that was is unknown). Similar to #332 (original Scottish Tartans Society reference) - Cooper. The Coupers of Gogar are also Baronets of Nova Scotia (1638). - 1886 — Couper Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 1886 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from - this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 778
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 74
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 74
Thread count
DB/4 LP8 R4 G48 DB8 G4 DB8 K20 LP8 DB4 LP8 G16 DB2 K2 DB44 LP8 DB4 R/4
One full sett is 400 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LP | #E4A6DB #E4A6DB | oklch(80.0% 0.100 331.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Nearest tartan variants
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /variants/s18/db2lp4r2g24db4g2db4k10lp4db2lp4g8db1k1db22lp4db2r2~x2/