Cunningham #2
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 KRKRKRW.
Part of the Cunningham 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=843
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1880 — Cunningham #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
The Cunninghams were a Lowland family and thus would not have had a tartan but the Sobieski Stewarts 'invented' one for them in their 1842 Vestiarium Scoticum. Stripes straddling the white are given in Vestiarium Scoticum (#844) as 'blew' and so published by both D.C. Stewart and Jamie Scarlett MBE. However, in practice most weavers produce them as black as shown here at #4644 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). In March 2004 the Scottish Tartans Authority received digital photos of all the Clans Originaux woven samples. In the Cunningham sample the red lines are slightly further apart and the guard lines appear to be black. Cunningham was one of the names adopted by the MacGregors when the clan was broken and scattered and this pattern and the Ramsay were based on the old black and red MacGregor sett. Lochcarron swatch in archives. - pre 1880 — Cunningham (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
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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: 843
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4644
Thread count
K/6 R4 K60 R56 K4 R4 W/6
One full sett is 268 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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
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 1.49 — 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
master sett ★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/k3r2k30r28k2r2w3~x2/