Davidson, Double
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 BRBKGKWK.
Part of the Davidson Double tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=896
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1847 Wilson's of Bannockburn produced this sett in 1847, calling it 'Double Davidson'.
5 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1847 — Davidson, Double (register-of-tartans, record)
This threadcount was taken from a sample in the Telfer Dunbar Collection, Huntly House: Pattern Book 4, page 26. Produced by Wilsons of Bannockburn in 1847 and given the name 'Double Davidson'. There is also a 'Half Davidson' (STR #897). Also similar to the Malcolm Sett (STR #2791). - 1847 — Davidson 'Double' - 1847 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Count from a sample in the Telfer Dunbar Collection, Huntly House. Pattern Book 4. Page 26. Wilsons of Bannockburn produced this in 1847 and gave it the name 'Double Davidson'. There is also a 'half Davidson (#1076). Sample in STA Dalgety Collection. Very close to Malcolm @ #5696. - 1847 — Davidson Double.. Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Davidson, Double.. (weddslist, record)
- undated — Davidson Double (weddslist, record)
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
- 1847 (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: 896
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 444
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 444
Thread count
K/6 W4 K6 G16 K16 DB16 R4 DB/6
One full sett is 136 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/k3w2k3g8k8db8r2db3~x2/