Anderson (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 RGRGRBRKGKGKWKYRKRYR.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 20 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1394

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 1900 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

R/8 G12 R4 G12 R6 DB8 R4 K8 DY4 K4 DY4 K6 W6 K6 LG36 R4 K4 R4 LG12 R/6

One full sett is 302 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LG#82D67A #82D67Aoklch(80.1% 0.150 142.2)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)

Sample pattern

R/8 G12 R4 G12 R6 DB8 R4 K8 DY4 K4 DY4 K6 W6 K6 LG36 R4 K4 R4 LG12 R/6 tartan

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.

AndersonWilson's No.110Innes Dress (Dance)Ruairidh (Personal)Anderson of Kinnedar, huntingCoulter (Personal)Anderson Variant Clan TartanInnes Dress Clan TartanKennedyWexford County Crest (Fashion)groundcomplexity

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