Hogarth of Firhill (Clan)
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 BKBKGGW.
Part of the Hogarth of Firhill tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=198
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 The Lyon Court Books record Bu1, Bk1, Bu6, Bk6, Y1, Gr6, Az2 as the thread count. These figures may be proportionally increased at the weavers discretion.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1971 — Hogarth of Firhill (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Registered in the Lyon Court Books No 24, 1st December 1971.Bu1, Bk1, Bu6, Bk6, Y1, Gr6, Az2 as the thread count. These figures may be proportionally increased at the weaver's discretion. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection. - pre 2003 — Hogarth of Firhill Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Hogarth, of Firhill (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 1971 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 198
Thread count
LB/8 G28 Y4 K28 DB28 K4 DB/6
One full sett is 198 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) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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 0.21 — 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/lb4g14y2k14db14k2db3~x2/