Lochaber Old.. District 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 BRBRBWB.
Part of the Lochaber Old tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=33
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1797 J.Telfer Dunbar Collection. Lochaber is the home of Clan Cameron and a portion of the Clanranald MacDonalds. The former military Fort William is now the population centre of the district on the West coast of Scotland. This is one of several recorded old authentic patterns from the Lochaber district.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1797 — Lochaber Old.. District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Lochaber Old (register-of-tartans, record)
Tartan in the J.Telfer Dunbar Collection which is in the Scottish Tartans Society Archive. J.Telfer was a Taretanologist. Lochaber is the home of Clan Cameron and a portion of the Clanranald MacDonalds. The former military Fort William is now the population centre of the district on the West coast of Scotland. This is one of several recorded old authentic patterns from the Lochaber district. Wilsons of Bannockburn a weaving firm founded c1770 near Stirling. The Pattern books are in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. Copies of the Pattern books and letters are in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — Lochaber, Old.. (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
- 1797 (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: 2166
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 33
Thread count
DB/12 R4 DB140 R4 DB64 LB4 DB/8
One full sett is 452 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s7/db3r1db35r1db16lb1db2~x4/