Montgomrie/Montgomery of Eglinton
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 KGKBKRK.
Part of the Montgomery 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=2991
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — Montgomrie/Montgomery of Eglinton (register-of-tartans, record)
This was originally Wilson's No. 7 or 'Eglinton'. It was later adopted by the Montgomeries of Ayrshire and D.W. Stewart thought this took place about the time of the Union (1707). Jamie Scarlett MBE comments that if that is correct, it must be one of the earliest genuine Lowland tartans that we have. - 1819 (1707?) — Montgomery - 1819 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This was originally Wilson's No. 7 or 'Eglinton'. It was later adopted by the Montgomeries of Ayrshire and D.W. Stewart thought this took place about the time of the Union (1707). James Scarlett comments that if that is correct, it must be one of the earliest genuine Lowland tartans that we have.
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
- 1819 (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: 2991
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1082
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1082
Thread count
K/8 R10 K8 DP56 K8 G10 K/8
One full sett is 200 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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 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/k4r5k4dp28k4g5k4~x2/