Wotherspoon
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 GBRGR.
Part of the Wotherspoon 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=4784
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1979 — Wotherspoon (register-of-tartans, record)
This sett comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which is housed at the Scottish Tartans Society. It was obtained from Andersons in 1947, one of several designs produced between 1930 and 1950 for Septs and Families of Scottish lineage. Wotherspoons are recorded in the Lowlands of Scotland from the beginning of the 14th century. The Rev. John Witherspoon (1722-94), born in Yester, East Lothian, was President of 'Princeton University' in 1768 and took an active part in the American Revolution. - pre 1979 — Wotherspoon (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
From Affleck slides. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection. Nomindex notes "Peter Anderson, Galashiels specimen 1979. The pattern may be considerably older than this specimen as MacGregor Hastie has one in his collection." All the woven samples show the narrow lines as an olive green whereas the modern House of Edgar and Lochcarron samples use dark green.
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
- 1979 (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: 4784
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 741
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 741
Thread count
R/20 DG12 R72 DB72 DG/12
One full sett is 344 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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/s5/r5dg3r18db18dg3~x4/