Duncan
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 KGWGBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1025
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1906 Duncans and Robertsons share a common ancester, one of the ancient Earls of Atholl, 'Fat Duncan', who led the clan at the Battle of Bannockburn. This sett is also known as Leslie of Wardis or Leslie Hunting, (No. 1113) but Duncan lacks the broad black present in the Leslie Hunting.
5 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1880 — Duncan (register-of-tartans, record)
D.C. Stewart casts doubt on a Duncan clan. He said that it 'may be an attempted reconstruction of the Douchadh of Mar as illustrated by MacIan, but in appearance it suggests rather a variation on the Davidson first given by Smibert. No early work shows, nor is much known about any clan Duncan.' Clans Originaux (1880) calls this Duncan or Leslie of Wards. Whilst it is close to Leslie Hunting (#1113, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) it doesn't have the black band bordering the blue. Duncans and Robertsons share a common ancestor, one of the ancient Earls of Atholl, 'Fat Duncan', who led the clan at the Battle of Bannockburn. This sett is also known as Leslie of Wardis. W.and A.K.Johnston, H Whyte. The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland, 1906. - pre 1880 — Duncan (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
D C Stewart casts doubt on a Duncan clan. He said that it "may be an attempted reconstruction of the Douchadh of Mar as illustrated by MacIan, but in appearance it suggests rather a variation on the Davidson first given by Smibert. No early work shows, nor is much known about any clan Duncan." Clans Originaux (1880) calls this Duncan or Leslie of Wards. Whilst it IS close to Leslie Htg (#1113) it doesn't have the black band bordering the blue. - 1906 — Duncan Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Duncan, or Leslie of Wardis (weddslist, record)
- undated — Duncan (weddslist, record)
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
- 1880 (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: 1025
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1112
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1112
Thread count
K/8 G42 W6 G42 DB42 R/8
One full sett is 280 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/k4g21w3g21db21r4~x2/