Carrick (Clan)
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 RBRGBGBGR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1389
Provenance
Earliest known date: c.1930 The Ayrshire Earldom of Carrick is associated with two major families, the Fergusons and the Kennedys. The tartan was designed for Councillor John Hannay by Arthur Galt of Messrs Hugh Galt & Sons, Girvan. There is also a Carrick Green sett.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1930 — Carrick (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
District Tartans book states that this was designed about 1930 for Councillor John Hannay by Arthur Galt of Hugh Galt & Sons Ltd., of Barrhill, Girvan. The name Carrick has a Gaelic derivation ('rock') and may refer to the island of Ailsa Craig off the Ayrshire coast. See also Carrick Green. The Ayrshire Earldom of Carrick is associated with two major families, the Fergusons and the Kennedys. This tartan and its associated Hunting version at #721 were for some time considered as District & Personal tartans respectively, but this misunderstanding has now been rectified (June 2010) - c.1930 — Carrick District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Carrick (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1930 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 1389
Thread count
R/56 DB24 R6 G40 DP2 G4 DP2 G4 R/14
One full sett is 234 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/r28db12r3g20dp1g2dp1g2r7~x2/