Cumming #2
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 KRGRGWGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=835
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1850 This sett closely resembles the 'Vestiarium' version, but is in fact the one given by Logan as MacAuley and illustrated by MacIan in 'The Clans of the Scottish Highlands', 1847. The Smith brothers said that the sett had the approval of the head of the family og Cumming.
7 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1850 — Cumming #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
This is the accepted Cumming as certified by the Smiths and produced by the weaving industry but it does differ from the Vestiarium Scoticum version which has an extra narrow green - see #1158 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). The note in W and A Smith's 1850 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' reads 'Sir W.G. Gordon Cumming is now the head of this family, and from him we received the pattern here given as 'The Cumyn Tartan'' Scottish Tartans Society notes say: 'This sett closely resembles the 'Vestiarium' version, but is in fact the one given by Logan as MacAuley and illustrated by MacIan in 'The Clans of the Scottish Highlands', 1847. ' - 1850 — Cumming - 1850 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This is the accepted Cumming as certified by the Smiths and produced by the weaving industry but it does differ from the Vestiarium Scoticum version which has an extra narrow green - see 1158. The note in William & Andrew Smith's 1850 "Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland reads "Sir W G Gordon Cumming is now the head of this family, and from him we received the pattern here given as 'The Cumyn Tartan'" STS notes say: "This sett closely resembles the 'Vestiarium' version, but is in fact the one given by Logan as MacAuley and illustrated by MacIan in 'The Clans of the Scottish Highlands', 1847. " The date of 1821 given here is from an order for 'Cummings' in the Wilsons' letters. - 1850 — Comyn or MacAulay Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Cumming SM (weddslist, record)
- undated — Comyn, or MacAulay (weddslist, record)
- undated — Cumming SM (weddslist, record)
- undated — Cumming SM (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
- 1850 (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: 835
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1157
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1157
Thread count
R/6 G18 W2 G18 R6 G12 R36 K/4
One full sett is 194 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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/r3g9w1g9r3g6r18k2~x2/