Davidson Half.. Clan Tartan
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 KGBGBR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1076
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1952 D.C.Stewart calls this sett, 'the more recent Davidson', and the basis for the Henderson tartan. It was published by his father D. W. Stewart in 1893, in a beautifully illustrated book, 'Old and Rare Scottish Tartans', in which each sample was woven in silk. This version omits the white stripe of earlier setts recorded in the Highland Society of London collection and the Moy Hall collection. Uniquely among tartans, there is a 'Half' Davidson and a 'Double' Davidson. The former being simply a reduced pattern and the latter a version woven by Wilson's of Bannockburn around 1847 in which the red and white stripes are doubled. Davidsons of Clan Dhai, as they were known, were part of Clan Chattan confederation.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1952 — Davidson Half.. Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/2002 — Davidson, Half (register-of-tartans, record)
Produced by Romanes and Paterson in Edinburgh, 1952-53. The sett of the Davidson tartan being reduced by half, hence the name. There is also a 'Double Davidson' (STR #896). - pre 2002 — Davidson - 1990 (Half) (tartans-authority, record)
There is also a 'Double Davidson' (#444) This is a variant/error for the VS sett. Given a c1990 date for archiving. Not known where the 'half' came from. PEM Aug 10 - undated — Davidson, Half.. (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1952 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 897
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1076
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1076
Thread count
K/6 G44 DB6 G6 DB38 R/6
One full sett is 200 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/k3g22db3g3db19r3~x2/