Lauder (Family)
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 GBGKGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2057
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1842 Possibly designed by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder who was a particular friend of the Sobieski brothers. The Setts No: 87. W & A K Johnston(1906).
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1842 — Lauder (Family) (register-of-tartans, record)
Said to have possibly been designed by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder who was a particular friend of the Sobieski brothers. However the Gunn (#708, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) is virtually identical and was recorded in 1831 - quite possible that the Sobieskis altered that slightly to make the Lauder for their friend Sir Dick. The Setts No: 87. W & A K Johnston (1906). (Scottish Tartans Society notes). Woven sample in Clans Originaux is named 'Gunn or Lauder'. In the Gunn tartan (#708, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) the black bands are the same width as the blue, otherwise the sett is the same. - 1842 — Lauder (Family) (tartans-authority, record)
Said to have possibly been designed by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder who was a particular friend of the Sobieski brothers. However the Gunn (#708) is virtually identical and was recorded in 1831 - quite possible that the Sobieskis altered that slightly to make the Lauder for their friend Sir Dick. The Setts No: 87. W & A K Johnston(1906). (STS notes). Woven sample in Clans Originaux is named 'Gunn or Lauder'. In the Gunn tartan (#708) the black bands are the same width as the blue, otherwise the sett is the same. - 1842 — Lauder Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Lauder (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
- 1842 (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: 2057
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 709
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 709
Thread count
G/6 DB16 G6 K8 G30 R/4
One full sett is 130 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
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/s6/g3db8g3k4g15r2~x2/