Menzies of Culdares
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 KBKBKBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5223
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1860 — Menzies of Culdares (register-of-tartans, record)
Obtained from a Peter MacDonald swatch. Peter extracted the design from the original portrait at Castle Menzies. Peter Eslea MacDonald May 07 - 1860 — Menzies of Culdares (Artefact) (tartans-authority, record)
From portrait at Castle Menzies ca. 1860. Obtained by the late Bill Johnston in 1993 either from a Pringles or Kinloch Anderson exhibition. No. Obtained from a Peter MacDonald swatch. Peter extrcted the design from the original portrait at Castle Menzies. PEM May 07
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
- 1860 (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: 5223
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3467
Thread count
K/8 DR4 K44 DR44 K6 DR8 LB/4
One full sett is 224 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/k4dr2k22dr22k3dr4lb2~x2/