Duchess of Albany
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 RBKGKGKGKGKGBGBGKGKGKGKGKBY.
Part of the Duchess of Albany tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 27 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1000
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1880 — Duchess of Albany (register-of-tartans, record)
Clan Originaux' is a swatch book found in Paris in c1880 used by J. Claude Fres Et Cie. who marketed tartan designs from Alsace, It contains many variations of Scottish Clan tartans. The only copy known to exist is in America and is now in the possession of Pendleton Mills in Portland, Oregon. - 1880 — Duchess of Albany (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
From Clan Originaux as Albany. JCT files has essentially same sett as Duchess of Albany.
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
- 1880 (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: 1000
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1378
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1378
Thread count
LO/4 DB44 K32 G6 K4 G4 K4 G24 K4 G4 K4 G6 DB16 G4 DB16 G6 K4 G4 K4 G24 K4 G4 K4 G6 K32 DB48 R/4
One full sett is 632 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/r2db24k16g3k2g2k2g12k2g2k2g3db8g2db8g3k2g2k2g12k2g2k2g3k16db22lo2~x2/