James of Glencarr (Personal)
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 BRGWRBGW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7542
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- February 2008 — James of Glencarr (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
The James of Glencarr tartan was designed specifically and exclusively for this family and is a very traditional design in both colour and sett. The direct maternal descent of the family from Clan Kerr has lent the red to the design, whilst the other colours show the paternal descent through the Celts of Wales (green) and Clan Gunn (blue and green). The colours also reflect those of Scotland itself (blue and white). The red white and blue in the design also represent the colours of Russia, which is connected to the family by marriage. This tartan is restricted and can only be worn by the extended family directly connected to James of Glencarr. Silk sample. - undated — James of Glencarr (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
The James of Glencarr tartan was designed specifically and exclusively for this family and is a very traditional design in both colour and sett. The direct maternal descent of the family from 1 Kerr has lent the red to the design, whilst the other colours show the paternal descent through the Celts of Wales (green) and 1 Gunn (blue and green). The colours also reflect those of Scotland itself (blue and white). The red white and blue in the design also represent the colours of Russia, which is connected to the family by marriage. This tartan is restricted and can only be worn by the extended family directly connected to James of Glencarr. Silk sample.
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
- February 2008 (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 Register of Tartans: 5576
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7542
Thread count
DB/16 R16 DG34 W6 R70 DB20 DG30 W/6
One full sett is 374 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s8/db8r8dg17w3r35db10dg15w3~x2/