Stuart/Stewart of Ardshiel
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 KRRGRKWRKRWKRKRRGRRKRKWRKRWKRGRRKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 34 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4017
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1810 — Stuart/Stewart of Ardshiel (register-of-tartans, record)
There are minor differences between the warp and weft in the blue not shown in the illustration. This is the earliest record of a Stewart of Ardshiel tartan. It differs from the Stewart of Appin in that the Red is interchanged with the blue. Ardshiel is part of Appin and it may be a variation on a sett common to the area. Stewarts of Ardshiel are regarded as a sept of the Appin branch. - 1810 — Stewart of Ardshiel - 1816 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
There are minor differences between the warp and weft in the blue not shown in the illustration. This is the earliest record of a Stewart of Ardshiel tartan. It differs from the Stewart of Appin in that the Red is interchanged with the blue. Ardshiel is part of Appin and it may be a variation on a sett common to the area. Stewarts of Ardshiel are regarded as a sept of the Appin branch.
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
- 1810 (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: 4017
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 73
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 73
Thread count
LB/4 K2 Ri2 R12 DG66 R4 K2 LB2 R6 K34 R6 LB2 K2 R65 K3 Ri2 R6 DG14 R6 Ri2 K3 R65 K2 LB2 R6 K34 R6 LB2 K2 R4 DG66 R12 Ri2 K/2
One full sett is 894 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| R | #E87878 #E87878 | oklch(70.0% 0.139 21.2) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
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/dg14r6ri2k3r65k2lb2r6k34r6lb2k2r4dg66r12ri2k2lb4~r2109032-ri2806019/