Stewart of Ardshiel Clan Tartan
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 GRRBRBWRBRWBRGRRBW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=73
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1822 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
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1822 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
G/14 R6 Ri2 DB3 R65 DB2 LB2 R6 DB34 R6 LB2 DB2 R4 G66 R12 Ri2 DB2 LB/4
One full sett is 450 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D05054 #D05054 | oklch(60.2% 0.162 21.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/g14r6ri2db3r65db2lb2r6db34r6lb2db2r4g66r12ri2db2lb4~r2109032-ri2406019/