Hamilton of Brandon
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 GKGWKYKWGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1579
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Hamilton of Brandon (register-of-tartans, record)
From D C Dalgliesh as 'Hamilton of Brandon', but Scottish Tartans Society sindex names it as 'Brandon (Manitoba)'. Why the Scottish Tartans Society should claim that is not explained. One of the titles of the 14th Duke was in fact the 11th Duke of Brandon which was awarded in 1711 and the City of Brandon in Manitoba was not founded until 1882. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. - pre 1997 — Hamilton of Brandon (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
From D C Dalgliesh as "Hamilton of Brandon", but STS sindex names it as "Brandon (Manitoba)". Why the STS should claim that is not explained. One of the titles of the 14th Duke was in fact the 11th Duke of Brandon which was awarded in 1711 and the City of Brandon in Manitoba was not founded until 1882. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection.
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
- 1997 (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: 1579
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5141
Thread count
DY/12 K4 G28 W4 K28 LY64 K28 W4 G28 K/4
One full sett is 392 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/ly16k7w1g7k1dy3~x4/