Lumsden (Short)
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 GWGRGGGRGRGRGRGRWRBRBRWRBRBRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 30 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2243
Provenance
Earliest known date: 0 One of a set of three similar designs for Laurie, Lawrie and Lowry.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — Lumsden (Short) (register-of-tartans, record)
This is known as the 'short' Lumsden tartan according to the House of Lumsden Assocation. - Unknown — Lumsden (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This is called the short version and is the one that is normally used. Samples in STA Dalgety Collection. - undated — Lumsden Short Version (weddslist, record)
- undated — Lumsden Short version 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
- 2017-01-06 (dataset default)
- 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: 2243
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 931
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 931
Thread count
R/18 DB2 R2 DB4 R2 DB2 R18 W2 R8 DB22 R4 DB22 R8 W2 R18 G4 R8 G4 R18 G10 R6 G8 R6 G6 Y2 G6 R6 G12 W2 G/12
One full sett is 458 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) |
| 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/s30/r9db1r1db2r1db1r9w1r4db11r2db11r4w1r9g2r4g2r9g5r3g4r3g3y1g3r3g6w1g6~x2/