Herbage of Laggan (Personal)
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 BBBKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1690
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1985 — Herbage of Laggan (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
A personal tartan for Herbage of Laggan, a millionaire greengrocer who bought the Laggan estates in early 1980's. Herbage later went bankrupt and sold Laggan. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. - pre 1985 — Herbage of Laggan (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
A personal tartan for Herbage of Laggan, A millionaire greengrocer who bought the Laggan estates in early 1980's. Herbage later went bankrupt and sold Laggan. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. Sindex notes say "Tartan Society design for . . "
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
- 1985 (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: 1690
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 811
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 811
Thread count
G/136 K44 N56 DR6 N/24
One full sett is 372 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
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.
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