John Muir Way
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 BRGRGRGG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11022
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 13/03/2014 — John Muir Way (register-of-tartans, record)
The John Muir Way is opening on 21st April 2014 tying in with the 100th anniversary of John Muir's death. The John Muir Way stretches between John Muir's birthplace in Dunbar to the waters of the Clyde at Helensburgh.John Muir the 19th century naturalist was born in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland Colours: brown and green represent nature; red comes from the Dunbar Tartan; blue represents the sea and sky. - 2014 — John Muir Way (tartans-authority, record)
The John Muir Way is opening on 21st April 2014 tying in with the 100th anniversary of John Muir's death. The John Muir Way stretches between John Muir's birthplace in Dunbar to the waters of the Clyde at Helensburgh. John Muir the 19th century naturalist was born in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland Colours: brown and green represent nature; red comes from the Dunbar Tartan; blue represents the sea and sky.
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
- 13/03/2014 (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: 11022
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 11022
Thread count
DY/70 DG38 R6 G16 R6 DG16 R6 DB/6
One full sett is 252 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) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/dy35dg19r3g8r3dg8r3db3~x2/