Brodie (W & A Smith)
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 GRBRKBWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=369
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1856 Peters' book, 'The Baronage of Angus and Mearns' (1856), provides the full title of this tartan which also appears in the manuscript prepared for the Vestiarium Scoticum. Peters did not give any clue to the origin of the tartan.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1850 — Brodie (W & A Smith) (register-of-tartans, record)
The sett that recorded in the manuscript version of W and A Smith 'Authenticated Tartans' (1850) but which didn't appear in the final publication. No details of the origin of this but it also appeared in 'The Baronage of Angus & Mearn in 1856'. James Scarlett MBE says that 'its authenticity is challenged only by the Vestiarium Scoticum'. - 1856 — Brodie of that Ilk & the Burn Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Brodie, of that Ilk and the Burn (weddslist, record)
- undated — Brodie (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: 369
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1684
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1684
Thread count
R/96 W8 DB8 K8 R24 DB8 R2 Y/8
One full sett is 220 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/r48w4db4k4r12db4r1y4~x2/