Drummond of Strathallan or Ogilvy
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 BGGWGGKRWRKGGGKRKRKRKGGGKRWRKGGWGGBRKRWBWRWBWRKRBGGGGGKWBWKRWRWRKGGKGKGGKRWRWRKGGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 82 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=992
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1812 — Drummond of Strathallan or Ogilvy (register-of-tartans, record)
This sett is also known as Ogilvie or Ogilvy. The full sett cannot be displayed in this medium. The Drummond of Strathallan tartan was adopted by the 6th Earl of Airlie on his marriage to Clementina Drummond in 1812. Weavers count available from Scottish Tartans Society archives. General Sir William Cockburn put this collection together bteween 1810-1820. This is very similar to Scottish Tartans World Register reference #1797 Ogilvy or Drummond of Stathallan - 1812 — Drummond of Strathallan (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. An incredibly complicated asymmetric sett also known as Ogilvie or Ogilvy. The Drummond of Strathallan tartan was adopted by the 6th Earl of Airlie on his marriage to Clementina Drummond in 1812. Due to the complexity of this count, its accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
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
- 1812 (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: 992
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 671
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 671
Thread count
DB/6 Y6 G10 W6 G10 Y6 K10 R10 W6 R10 K6 Y16 G10 Y16 K6 R6 K6 R6 K6 R6 K6 Y16 G10 Y16 K6 R10 W6 R10 K10 Y6 G10 W6 G10 Y6 DB6 R6 K6 R26 W2 DB2 W2 R26 W2 DB2 W2 R26 K6 R6 DB6 Y16 G10 Y6 G10 Y16 K26 W2 DB6 W2 K26 R10 W6 R10 W6 R10 K6 Y6 G26 K6 G26 K6 G26 Y6 K6 R10 W6 R10 W6 R10 K6 Y6 G10 W/6
One full sett is 1516 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) |
| 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/s82/db3y3g5w3g5y3k5r5w3r5k3y8g5y8k3r3k3r3k3r3k3y8g5y8k3r5w3r5k5y3g5w3g5y3db3r3k3r13w1db1w1r13w1db1w1r13k3r3db3y8g5y3g5y8k13w1db3w1k13r5w3r5w3r5k3y3g13k3g13k3g13y3k3r5w3r5w3r5k3y3g5w3~x2/