Middleton
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 GRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2947
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1906 Sir Thomas Middleton of Rosefarm in Cromarty was a distinguished agriculturalist in the Department of Food Production during the First World War. Middletons are associated with the Forbes and the Innes Clans.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1906 — Middleton (register-of-tartans, record)
See also Applecross. From W & A K Johnston 1906. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection. This is the same as MacDonald of Sleat - see #904 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). - pre 1906 — Middleton (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
See also Applecross. From W & A K Johnston 1906. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection. This is the same as MacDonald of Sleat - see #904. 'Middleton of Kinfauns' name comes from the Sinclair/Brown Scrapbook, Page 255. - 1906 — Middleton Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Middleton (weddslist, 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
- 1906 (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: 2947
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 903
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 903
Thread count
G/128 R8 G16 R/88
One full sett is 264 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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/s4/g16r1g2r11~x8/