Cameron of Locheil #2
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 RBRBWBRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=498
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1820 — Cameron of Locheil #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
Donald Cameron of Locheil had a joined plaid in this sett in c1820. The sett is taken from a portrait in Achnacarry of 'the Gentle Lochiel' painted by George Chalmers in 1764. Iain B Cameron Taylor wrote, 'Of the unknown Cameron tartans in existence today, the Chief's personal tartan, the Cameron of Locheil, is undoubtably the oldest.' D C Stewart said of this sett: 'In general the Smiths' illustrations contain few slips.' Another comment said 'Lochiel is said to have bought a quantity of tartan in Glasgow for the clansmen he raised to meet Prince Charles Edward at Glenfinnan. Is this it?'. In their 1850 book 'The Clan and Family Tartans of Scotland', W and A Smith of Mauchline wrote: 'The pattern here given was sent to us by Lochiel, the undoubted Chief of the Clan, who says it is what he has always considered the Tartan of the Camerons, and is the same as represented upon a portrait of one of his ancestors, in the possession of Sir Duncan Cameron of Collart.' This entry has been verified as being the same as the Smiths - the Clans Originaux version is slightly different. - pre 1820 — Cameron of Lochiel -1820 (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Donald Cameron of Lochiel has a joined plaid in this sett C.1820. The sett is taken from a portrait in Achnacarry of the Gentle Lochiel painted by George Chalmers in 1764. Iain .B. Cameron Taylor wrote, ''Of the unknown Cameron tartans in existence today, the Chief's personal tartan, the Cameron of Lochiel, is undoubtably the oldest." DC Stewart said of this sett: "In general the Smiths' illustrations contain few slips." Another comment said "Lochiel is said to have bought a quantity of tartan in Glasgow for the clansmen he raised to meet Pr. Ch. Ed, at Glenfinnan. Is this it?" In their 1850 book "The Clan and Family Tartans of Scotland" William and Andrew Smith of Mauchline wrote: "The pattern here given was sent to us by Lochiel, the undoubted Chief of the Clan, who says it is what he has always considered the Tartan of the Camerons, and is the same as represented upon a portrait of one of his ancestors, in the possession of Sir Duncan Cameron of Collart." This entry has been verified as being the same as the Smiths - the Clans Originaux version at 6149 is slightly different.
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
- 1820 (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: 498
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1398
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1398
Thread count
R/24 G12 R24 DB4 W4 DB4 R8 DB32 R/16
One full sett is 216 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/r6g3r6db1w1db1r2db8r4~x4/