Buie
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 RKR.
Part of the Buie tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 3 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=436
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 A sample of this tartan was recorded by the Scottish Tartans Society during the period 1970 to 1990.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1968 — Buie (register-of-tartans, record)
Sindex notes: 'Details from Mr Buie of Atlanta, Georgia 1968.' Tony Murray did quite a bit of research into this in 1971 but came to no firm conclusions. He did say that 'It does not resemble MacLaine of Lochbuie' (#1590, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) but it does resemble that tartan in construction if not in colour and may well be a corruption of it or a deliberate differencing for an individual called Buie (Scottish Tartans Authority February 2005). MacLaine of Lochbuie frequently gets written as Loch Buie overseas. There are also suggestions that Buie is an alternative spelling of Bowie - a name said to be from Jura and S. Uist. - 1968 — Buie (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Sindex notes: "Details from Mr Buie of Atlanta, Georgia 1968." Tony Murray did quite a bit of research into this in 1971 but came to no firm conclusions. He did say that "It resembles MacLaine of Lochbuie"(#1590) in construction if not in colour and may well be a corruption of it or a deliberate differencing for an individual called Buie. (BW Feb.2005). MacLaine of Lochbuie frequently gets written as Loch Buie overseas. There are also suggestions that Buie is an alternative spelling of Bowie - a name said to be from Jura and S. Uist. - pre 2003 — Buie Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 1968 (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: 436
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1590
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1590
Thread count
R/72 K12 R/8
One full sett is 104 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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/s3/r18k3r2~x4/