Cleland
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 KWGWR.
Part of the Cleland tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=673
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/12/1989 — Cleland (register-of-tartans, record)
In 1989 John Clelland Hocknull in Australia made it known that he was the founder of the Clan Cleland Society which wished to have a Cleland Society tartan designed. The tartan is based on the Douglas sett (for whom the Clelands were traditionally foresters) and is woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. The blue of the official tartan is derived from the blue of the Cleland Coat of Arms. Those with the name Cleland, Clelland, Cleeland, Clealand, Kneland, Kneeland, Niland and some MacClelland are more than welcome to wear this tartan. - 1989, December — Cleland (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
In 1989 John Clelland Hocknull of Casuavina in Australia's Northern Territories made it known that he was the Founder of the Northern Territories Clan Clelland Association Inc. who wanted to have a Clelland tartan designed. It's based on the Douglas and is woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. Previously recorded Cleland at #2181 bears no relation to this but was said to be in the Hutcheson Collection. Needs investigation. Blue is wrong.
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
- 01/12/1989 (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: 673
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2181
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2181
Thread count
K/4 LB72 G24 W6 R/4
One full sett is 212 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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.
ID: /variants/s5/k2lb36g12w3r2~x2/