Lister (Misty Mountain)
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 GBGGGBG.
Part of the Lister tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10650
Provenance
Earliest known date: 07/07/2012 Inspired by a sponsored challenge to wear kilts for a year, David Lister designed this tartan for his family. Colours: grey represents mountain mists; brown represents the matriarchal line and mountains; gold represents the first rays of the morning sun. There are no restrictions as to who can wear this tartan.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 07/07/2012 — Lister (Misty Mountain) (register-of-tartans, record)
Inspired by a sponsored challenge to wear kilts for a year, David Lister designed this tartan for his family. Colours: grey represents mountain mists; brown represents the matriarchal line and mountains; gold represents the first rays of the morning sun. There are no restrictions as to who can wear this tartan. - 07/07/2012 — Lister (Misty Mountain) Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 07/07/2012 (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: 10650
Thread count
DY/16 N58 DY16 Y6 DY16 N16 Y/6
One full sett is 246 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s7/dy8n29dy8y3dy8n8y3~x2/