Martin
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 KBKGKGKGY.
Part of the Martin 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=2841
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1980 — Martin (register-of-tartans, record)
In 1993 Kiltmaker & kilt historian Bob Martin explained that years ago when he first became interested in Scottish tartan (circa 1976) , he bought this J.P. Stevens (a weaver in Burlington North Carolina) fashion fabric from a local outlet in Greenville SC and made himself a kilt from it. He remembered the price being about $2/yd and he bought the last piece of 15yds. He wore the kilt to the Charleston (or Savannah) Games and when Scotty Thompson asked him what it was, he replied 'Martin' and SC immediately registered it with the Scottish Tartans Society and so it has remained to this day. The thread count is as given by Bob Martin. He names the second colour as 'purple' but says it is more like maroon or claret. However he suggests a more pleasing sett would have a narrower yellow stripe. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. - pre 1980 — Martin (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
In 1993 Kiltmaker & kilt historian Bob Martin explained that years ago when he first became interested in Scottish tartan (circa 1976) , he bought this J.P. Stevens (a weaver in Burlington North Carolina) fashion fabric from a local outlet in Greenville SC and made himself a kilt from it. He remembered the price being about $2/yd and he bought the last piece of 15yds. He wore the kilt to the Charleston (or Savannah ?) Games and when Scotty Thompson asked him what it was, he replied "Martin" and ST immediately registered it with the Scottish Tartans Society and so it has remained to this day. The thread count is as given by Bob Martin -- he names the second colour as "purple" but says it is more like maroon or claret. However he suggests a more pleasing sett would have a narrower yellow stripe. Sample in STA Johnston Collection.
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
- 1980 (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: 2841
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1207
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1207
Thread count
LO/16 G40 K12 G12 K12 G12 K36 DR44 K/12
One full sett is 364 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/lo4g10k3g3k3g3k9dr11k3~x4/