Longmuir (2014)

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 KGKBGW.

Part of the Longmuir tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11146

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
2014 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

K/86 DG16 K16 DT42 DG20 W/4

One full sett is 278 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
DT#023535 #023535oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

K/86 DG16 K16 DT42 DG20 W/4 tartan

Compared to the master

This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.

Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 2.02 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).

this sett (top) woven against the master sett (bottom) this sett master sett ★
One weave of this sett against the master sett ★, split on the diagonal: a shared proportion runs seamlessly across it with only the shades shifting; a different proportion breaks on it.

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.

Longmuir (2014)Childers (Gurkha Rifles) (Military)Leahy, Thomas Francis & Mary (Australia)Granger Family TartanMeiklejohn (Personal)Scottish Chieftain (Universal)Patriot, The (Fashion)Wcwm 9275 5471-2Passion of Scotland (Fashion)Grass of Rasunda (2009), Thegroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s6/k43dg8k8dt21dg10w2~x2/

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