Culloden Unidentified Plaid
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 BRBRBRGRBRBRBRBRBRBRGRBRGRBRBRBRBRGRBRGRBRB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 43 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=829
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — Culloden Unidentified Plaid (register-of-tartans, record)
At least four pieces of this cloth exist. Two are at Blair Castle and one at Inverness Museum. The sett was first published by D.W. Stewart in 1893 but it is also known that copies were made in 1821. This count appears in D.C. Stewart's, 'The Setts. of the Scottish Tartans.' No 255. - undated — Culloden, Unidentified Plaid (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
- 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: 829
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 395
Thread count
DB/10 R14 DB2 R2 Y10 R10 DB10 R10 Y4 R2 DB2 R2 DB2 R10 DB2 R2 DB2 R2 Y4 R10 DB10 R10 Y10 R2 DB2 R12 DB2 R2 DB2 R4 DB2 R2 DB2 R12 DB2 R2 Y10 R8 DB2 R2 DB2 R2 DB/10
One full sett is 432 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/s43/db5r7db1r1y5r5db5r5y2r1db1r1db1r5db1r1db1r1y2r5db5r5y5r1db1r6db1r1db1r2db1r1db1r6db1r1y5r4db1r1db1r1db5~x2/