Nicolson of Tiree & Coll (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 BKBRBG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7870
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2009 — Nicolson of Tiree & Coll (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Aeofric Lachlan Bryan Nicolson of Taransay and dedicated to Prince Sihtric Snaecollson, Lord of Tiree and Coll, High Chief of Clan Nicolson in Ireland & Scotland. Sihtric would give the name to the Island of Tiree for his wife Princess Thyri of Norway who had died young, possibly in childbirth. The use of purple is to indicate the Royal connection. Thread count doubled for clarity. - undated — Nicolson of Tiree & Coll (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Aeofric Lachlan Bryan Nicolson of Taransay and dedicated to Prince Sihtric Snaecollson, Lord of Tiree and Coll, High Chief of 1 Nicolson in Ireland & Scotland. Sihtric would give the name to the Island of Tiree for his wife Princess Thyri of Norway who had died young, possibly in childbirth.The use of purple is to indicate the Royal connection.Thread count doubled for clarity.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2009 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 7870
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7870
Thread count
G/12 DBi32 R44 DB12 K8 DP/8
One full sett is 212 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/g3dbi8r11db3k2dp2x4dbi1406275-db1404245/