Russell (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 KGKRBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3179
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1830-40 — Russell (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Pattern Book.4 p.11 & Wilsons' specimen c1830-40 in the Harision's sample book at Heriot-Watt University. Tartan shared by Hunter, Galbraith, Mitchell, and Russell. it appears in the Highland Society of London collection as Galbraith, in a mid-19th cent. list as Russell. Also marketed in 20th cent. as Hunter, and ca. 1950 acquired the name Mitchell when adopted by the U.S.Air Force Pipe Band and renamed in honour of General Billy Mitchell. It is the same as Ferguson of Balquhidder with the green stripe on blue changed to white. - 01/01/1892 — Russell (register-of-tartans, record)
Pattern Book.4 p.11. Tartan shared by Hunter, Galbraith, Mitchell, and Russell. It appears in the Highland Society of London collection as Galbraith, in a mid-19th century list as Russell. Also marketed in 20th century as Hunter, and ca. 1950 acquired the name Mitchell when adopted by the U.S.Air Force Pipe Band and renamed in honour of General Billy Mitchell. It is the same as Ferguson of Balquhidder with the green stripe on blue changed to white.
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
- 1830-40 (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: 5146
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3179
Thread count
K/6 G20 K20 R6 DB16 W/6
One full sett is 136 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) |
| 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/s6/k3g10k10r3db8w3~x2/