Ross (Wilsons) Clan/Family 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 GRGRGRGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGRGRBRGRGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGRGRGRGR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 54 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=3560
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1819 1819 (Key Pattern Book). Peter MacDonald says that there are over a dozen patterns of this type which obviously have a common ancestor which was probably the Lumsden of the mid 1700s. (#869). Relevant tartans are Ross, Rae, MacRae and Marchioness of Huntly's, Princes Own.
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
- 1819 (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
Thread count
R/25 G6 R25 G29 R4 G8 R4 G29 DP32 G6 DP32 G29 DP2 G2 DP4 G2 DP2 G29 DP2 G2 DP4 G2 DP2 G29 R25 G6 R25 DP2 R25 G6 R25 G29 DP2 G2 DP4 G2 DP2 G29 DP2 G2 DP4 G2 DP2 G29 DP32 G6 DP32 G29 R4 G8 R4 G29 R25 G/6
One full sett is 1391 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DP | #440044 #440044 | oklch(27.1% 0.125 328.4) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DP | #780078 #780078 | oklch(40.2% 0.185 328.4) |
| 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/s28/r25g6r25g29r4g8r4g29dp32g6dp32g29dp2g2dp4g2dp2g29dp2g2dp4g2dp2g29r25g6r25dp2~dp1607327/