Shaw of Tordarroch Green (Hunting)
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 KGBRGRBRGRBGKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3778
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1971 — Shaw of Tordarroch Green (Hunting) (register-of-tartans, record)
Recorded in Lord Lyon Book - LCB 23 on 7th December 1971. Checked against Sindex May 2002. Sindex states 'Designed by D.C. Stewart 1969 for Major C.J. Shaw of Tordarroch MBE as a replacement for the existing Shaw derived from an erroneous sett portrayed by R.R. McIan of Farquhar Shaw, the Black Watch mutineer. By permission of the Colonel of the Black Watch, the erroneous sett will be retained for use by the Clan in memory of Cpl Farquhar Shaw. Slightly different samples in the Dalgety & Scarlett Collections. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection amd Scottish Tartans Authority Dalgety Collection. Also known as 'Green Shaw of Tordarroch'. - 1971 — Shaw of Tordarroch Green (Htg) (Clan (tartans-authority, record)
Recorded in Lord Lyon Book - LCB 23 on 7th December 1971. Checked against Sindex May 2002. Sindex states "Designed by D.C.Stewart 1969 for Major C J Shaw of Tordarroch MBE as a replacement for the existing Shaw derived from an erroneous sett portrayed by R R McIan of Farquhar Shaw, the Black Watch mutineer. By permission of the Colonel of the Black Watch, the erroneous sett will be retained for use by the Clan in memory of Cpl Farquhar Shaw. Slightly different samples in the Dalgety & Scarlett Collections. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection.
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
- 1971 (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: 3778
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 318
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 318
Thread count
LB/10 K2 G60 DB30 R16 G60 R16 DB4 R16 G60 R16 DB30 G60 K/2
One full sett is 752 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) |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| DG | #285800 #285800 | oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8) |
| 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) |
| 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/lb5k1g30db15r8g30r8db2~x2/