Ross Clan Tartan
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 GRGRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRGRGRGRG.
Part of the Ross tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 27 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=864
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1810-15 D.C.Stewart says, "The version here given may be taken to be correct." Later versions, including Logans, are known to have omissions. The Clan Ross is descended from Fearcher MacinTagart, Earl of Ross in the 13th century. The chiefship has passed to the Rosses of Shandwick. The tartan is also worn by the MacTiers. Also worn by the Metro Toronto Police pipe band. (Strathallan 1994)
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1810-15 — Ross Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Ross #4 (register-of-tartans, record)
D.C. Stewart says, "The version here given may be taken to be correct." Later versions, including Logans, are known to have omissions. The Clan Ross is descended from Fearcher MacinTagart, Earl of Ross in the 13th century. The chiefship has passed to the Rosses of Shandwick. The tartan is also worn by the MacTiers. General Sir William Cockburn put this collection together between 1810-1820. - undated — Ross (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1810-15 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 3555
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 864
Thread count
G/36 R4 G36 R36 G4 R8 G4 R36 DB36 R4 DB36 R36 DB2 R2 DB4 R2 DB2 R36 DB2 R2 DB4 R2 DB2 R36 G36 R4 G/36
One full sett is 824 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s27/g18r2g18r18g2r4g2r18db18r2db18r18db1r1db2r1db1r18db1r1db2r1db1r18g18r2g18~x2/