Metcalf (Clan)
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 BBGBWBWBWKWKWBWBWGB.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 19 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3471
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2002 — Metcalf (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Swatch brought to TECA tent, Grandfather Mtn. Games 1991, by Mrs. James Shoemaker of Tega Cay, SC, who said it was brought from Scotland over 100 years ago by her (great?) grandmother. Count by JCT. Count halved to ahow sett. - undated — Metcalf (register-of-tartans, record)
Swatch brought toTECAtent, Grandfather Mtn. Games 1991, by Mrs. James Shoemaker of Tega Cay, SC, who said it was brought from Scotland over 100 years ago by her (great) grandmother. Count by JCT. Count halved to show sett.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2002 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5182
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3471
Thread count
DR/88 G36 LB10 DB4 LB4 DB6 LB18 K14 LB10 K14 LB18 DB6 LB4 DB4 LB10 DR32 G6 DR10 DB/4
One full sett is 504 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/s19/dr44g18lb5db2lb2db3lb9k7lb5k7lb9db3lb2db2lb5dr16g3dr5db2~x2/