Montrose (Graham)
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 GKRGKGRKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2996
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1831 — Montrose (Graham) (register-of-tartans, record)
Sometimes confused with Macnaughton which has azure guards to the black line instead of - as here - black guards to the azure line. The connection between Graham of Montrose and Macnaughton can be seen in the painting called "Montrose" in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It was painted by James Drummond and shows Montrose being led through Edinburgh's Royal Mile to be hanged after his capture in 1650. The detail is superb and one can clearly see the MacNaughton plaid underneath the rope tying him to the cart. There are also captured clansmen standing beside the cart one of whom also wears the MacNaughton plaid. Clan Graham recently commissioned a red Graham of Montrose tartan based on the MacNaughton tartan in honour of what happened. "The Great Marquis" of Montrose was given the ragged plaid by a Macnaughton as he was brought through Fife so that he would be spared the indignity of being paraded to his death dressed like a pauper. It's said that the Macnaughton walked with him. - 01/01/1831 — Graham Dress (1831) (register-of-tartans, record)
Sometimes confused with Macnaughton which has azure guards to the black line instead of - as here - black guards to the azure line. The connection between Graham of Montrose and Macnaughton can be seen in the painting called 'Montrose' in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It was painted by James Drummond and shows Montrose being led through Edinburgh's Royal Mile to be hanged after his capture in 1650. The detail is superb and one can clearly see the MacNaughton plaid underneath the rope tying him to the cart. There are also captured clansmen standing beside the cart one of whom also wears the MacNaughton plaid. Clan Graham recently commissioned a red Graham of Montrose tartan based on the MacNaughton tartan in honour of what happened. 'The Great Marquis' of Montrose was given the ragged plaid by a Macnaughton as he was brought through Fife so that he would be spared the indignity of being paraded to his death dressed like a pauper. It's said that the Macnaughton walked with him.
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
- 1831 (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: 4857
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3499
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 350
Thread count
Y/8 K8 R64 DG64 K48 Y32 R64 K8 Y/8
One full sett is 592 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| 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/y1k1r8dg8k6y4r8k1y1~x8/