Matheson (Lochcarron)
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 BBGBBGBGBGBGBGBBGBGBG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 21 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3461
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2002 — Matheson (Lochcarron) (tartans-authority, record)
This Lochcarron variant in commercial production (at least in their Reiver range) uses the Logan sett but count of threads 10-14 is such as to produce a different appearance to the tartan -- an appearance of double green tramlines on a red square. - undated — Matheson (Lochcarron) (register-of-tartans, record)
This Lochcarron variant in commercial production (at least in their Reiver range) uses the Logan sett but count of threads 10-14 is such as to produce a different appearance to the tartan, an appearance of double green tramlines on a red square.
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: 5025
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3461
Thread count
G/14 DR4 G4 DR4 G4 DR54 DB18 G4 DR4 G4 DR4 G4 DR12 G4 DR4 G4 DR4 DB20 G12 DR4 DB/10
One full sett is 368 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) |
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/s21/g7dr2g2dr2g2dr27db9g2dr2g2dr2g2dr6g2dr2g2dr2db10g6dr2db5~x2/