Abercrombie
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 BKBKBKGWG.
Part of the Abercrombie tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1805 — Abercrombie (register-of-tartans, record)
First mentioned by Wilsons of Bannockburn in 1805. Named after Sir Ralph Abercrombie and produced by Wilsons about the end of the 18th Century. This sett agrees with the Scottish Tartan Society sindex card. See also STR #12. - 1831 — Abercrombie - 1831 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
The sett was recorded by Logan about 1831 but his documented thread count was so 'clumsy' (Scarlett, 1990) and in view of the many 'aberrations' in some of his data, James Scarlett suggested that modifications could be made although the ones implemented to produce the generally accepted version of Abercrombie (DCS 001) are not those suggested by Scarlett.This sett agrees with the Sindex card (2002). Lochcarron swatch. Also sample woven in 1957 by J. MacGregor-Hastie.
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
- 1805 (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: 10
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 241
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 241
Thread count
G/56 W4 G28 K28 DB8 K8 DB8 K8 DB/28
One full sett is 268 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s9/g14w1g7k7db2k2db2k2db7~x4/