Anderson (Highland Society of London)
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 RGRBRBRGRBRKGKGKWKWRKRWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 24 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=74
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1815 — Anderson (Highland Society of London) (register-of-tartans, record)
In 1815, members of the Highland Society of London resolved to request of each of the Highland chiefs, a sample of their clan tartan. The swatches were to be signed and sealed in the chief's own hand. This sett is one of those delivered to the Society between 1815 and 1822. - undated — Anderson 8 (weddslist, record)
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
- 1815 (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: 74
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1397
Thread count
R/12 G20 R4 DB4 R8 DB4 R4 G20 R8 DB16 R4 K16 Y4 K8 Y4 K8 W12 K12 LB54 R4 K4 R4 LB20 R/12
One full sett is 508 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s24/r6g10r2db2r4db2r2g10r4db8r2k8y2k4y2k4w6k6lb27r2k2r2lb10r6~x2/