Maitland Chief
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 GBGKGGBGR.
Part of the Maitland 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=2790
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1953 — Maitland Chief (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in 1953 and worn by the standard bearers at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. This is the Chief's Own sett and was registered in Lord Lyon Court Book no.10 on 18th August 1960 by the Rt Hon Earl of Lauderdale, chief of the name and arms of Maitland. Only available through the Chief (Email: chief@clanmaitland.org.uk). This sett shows the increased proportions of green and blue of the manufactured tartan. The Lyon Court Book (entry number 10) gives the largest green 18 threads and the blue only 16. - 1953 — Maitland (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
According to Sutton/Carr in their publication 'Tartans' this was designed in 1953 and was worn in that year by standard bearers in the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. This is the Chief's Own sett but was not registered in Lord Lyon Book No. 10. until 18th August 1960 by the Rt. Hon. Earl of Lauderdale, chief of the name and arms of Maitland by virtue of which registration the chief strictly controls the manufacture and sale of this tartan. The Maitlands are a Lowland family, Dukes of Lauderdale and in 1790 acquired the role of 'Hereditary Bearer for the Sovereign of the National Flag of Scotland. Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection. Lengthy entry in D C Stewart's Nomindex. The shade of blue can vary from dark to light. Only available through the Chief who is contactable at chief@clanmaitland.org.uk.
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
- 1953 (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: 2790
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 714
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 714
Thread count
G/10 DB48 G14 K20 G48 DY4 DB4 DY4 R/4
One full sett is 298 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) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/g5db24g7k10g24dy2db2dy2r2~x2/