Monaghan, County
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 BRGBYRBYBRYBGRBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2977
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1996 — Monaghan, County (register-of-tartans, record)
One of a series of Irish District tartans designed by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar. These are not 'officially sanctioned' District tartans but have apparently proved popular and no doubt in time will be accepted as genuine District rather than Fashion tartans. Designed for Macnaughtons of Pitlochry as a collection of trade tartans. - 1997 — Monaghan, County (District) (tartans-authority, record)
One of a series of Irish District tartans designed by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar. These were not 'officially sanctioned' District tartans but, like many of their historic district tartan predecessors have apparently proved popular enough to be regarded as 'District' rather than their original categorisation of 'Fashion'. Sample in STA's 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
- 1996 (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: 2977
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2267
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2267
Thread count
LY/6 DO4 R26 DG32 DO28 LY16 R28 DO4 LY6 DO4 R28 LY16 DO28 DG32 R26 DO/4
One full sett is 566 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
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/ly3do2r14ly8do14dg16r13do2ly3~x2/