Murtaugh
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 KRWKYKWBKBKWYGYWYGYKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 21 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3080
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 16/10/2001 — Murtaugh (register-of-tartans, record)
A tartan for Murtaughs and all its spelling variants. It is derived from the Gaelic O'Muircheartaigh meaning 'navigator'. Stephen M Murtaugh, an ancestor of the designer, moved from County Mayo in the mid 19th century to Pittsburgh USA. The name is now found throughout the States. Can be worn by all those with the name and spellings Murtaugh. This tartan was designed by the late Don Smith of Heraldic Graphics of Glasgow. The weaver was D.C. Dalgliesh of Selkirk. - Oct 2001 — Murtaugh (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
A tartan for Murtaughs and all its spelling variants. It is derived from the Gaelic O'Muircheartaigh meaning 'navigator'. Stephen M Murtaugh, an ancestor of the designer, moved from County Mayo in the mid 19th century to Pittsburgh USA. The name is now found throughout the States. Can be worn by all those with the name and spellings Murtaugh. This tartan was designed by the late Don Smith of Heraldic Graphics of Glasgow. The weaver was D.C. Dalgliesh of Selkirk.
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
- 16/10/2001 (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: 3080
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4022
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2835
Thread count
R/8 K8 LO8 Y4 LO4 W4 LO4 Y4 LO4 W4 K8 DB6 K4 DB48 W4 K4 LO6 K6 W4 R8 K/4
One full sett is 296 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/r4k4lo4y2lo2w2lo2y2lo2w2k4db3k2db24w2k2lo3k3w2r4k2~x2/