Campbell, New Louden
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 RWYWBYWGWRYRKRYRWY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=534
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1840 — Campbell, New Louden (register-of-tartans, record)
Possibly the elusive red Campbell tartan. Jamie Scarlett MBE, speculates that this may be the lost tartan that was planned for Lord Loudoun's Highland regiment around 1740, resurrected as a new pattern. Wilsons of Bannockburn’s pattern books are held in the National Museums Scotland. Copies of the pattern books and letters are in the Scottish Tartan Society archive. - 1840 — Campbell, New Louden (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
STS: Possibly the elusive red Campbell tartan. James Scarlett speculates that this may be the 'lost' tartan that was planned for Lord Loudoun's Highland regiment around 1740 resurrected as a new pattern.
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
- 1840 (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: 534
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 11
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 11
Thread count
R/50 W4 LY10 LB4 DB4 LY10 W4 G24 W4 O4 LY4 R10 K4 R10 LY4 O4 W4 LY/18
One full sett is 284 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) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/r25w2ly5lb2db2ly5w2g12w2o2ly2r5k2r5ly2o2w2ly9~x2/