Menteith
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 GWGKBK.
Part of the Menteith tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2919
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Menteith (register-of-tartans, record)
Gordon Teall (District Tartans) states that this started life as the 'District Stewartry of Menteith' and although it is similar to the Graham of Menteith, the proportions are quite distinct and the azure overcheck has been replaced with a white. Scottish Tartans Society notes further add: Menteith lies in the upper reaches of the River Forth. The tartan is similar to the Graham of Mentieth sett recorded by Logan in 1831. The proportions of colours are quite distinct, however, and the azure stripe in the family tartan is replaced by white in the district. The Menteith district tartan was rescued from oblivion in 1941 by Graeme Menteith who wrote to MacGregor-Hastie about it. (Scottish Tartans Society archives) - pre 2002 — Menteith (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Gordon Teall (District Tartans) states that this started life as the 'District Stewartry of Menteith' and although it is similar to the Graham of Menteith, the proportions are quite distinct and the azure overcheck has been replaced with a white. STS notes further add: Menteith lies in the upper reaches of the River Forth. The tartan is similar to the Graham of Mentieth sett recorded by Logan in 1831. The proportions of colours are quite distinct, however, and the azure stripe in the family tartan is replaced by white in the district. The Menteith district tartan was rescued from oblivion in 1941 by Graeme Menteith who wrote to MacGregor-Hastie about it. (STS archives)
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
- 2002 (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: 2919
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 929
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 929
Thread count
G/36 LB4 G24 K28 DB28 K/4
One full sett is 208 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) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/g9lb1g6k7db7k1~x4/