Austin Clan
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 BKBGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=137
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1893 Also recorded in Wilson's of Bannockburn, 1819 pattern book as No. 75 or Austin. D W Stewart writes in 'Old and Rare..'in 1893, "that it is included in every early collection." The Keiths were a powerful Celtic family, who held the hereditary office of Great Marischal of Scotland. They are associated with Dunottar Castle, near Stonehaven.
8 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1811 — Austin Clan (register-of-tartans, record)
Recorded by D W Stewart in 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893), which contains a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity. Many of the illustrated tartans owe their present day popularity to the publication of this work. The earliest known date recorded here is from a list compiled by D C Stewart from Wilsons of Bannockburn letters. - 1811 — Austin (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Tony Marshall states that Keith, Marshall, Falconer & Austin all have the same tartan. These colours are from STS count but original colours for this entry were weathered green and light blue. STS notes: 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans' (1893), contains a selection of forty five setts, woven in silk, of special interest or antiquity. Many of the illustrated tartans owe their present day popularity to the publication of this work. The author was D. W. Stewart. Woven sample in STA Scarlett Collection. The earliest known date recorded here is from a list compiled by D C Stewart from Wilsons of Bannockburn letters. - 1893 — Keith and Austin Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 1893 — Austin or Keith/Marshall Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Austin, or Keith (weddslist, record)
- undated — Keith Austin and Marshall (weddslist, record)
- undated — Austin (weddslist, record)
- undated — Keith and Austin (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
- 1811 (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: 137
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 254
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 254
Thread count
DB/8 K8 DB8 G18 K/4
One full sett is 80 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s5/db4k4db4g9k2~x2/