Prince of Wales Fashion Weavers Tartan
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 GYGBGBGBGBGBGBGYGY.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=3306
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1998 From Lochcarron. Also produced by Ingles Buchan (Textiles). same as Duke of Rothesay, Hunting. James Cant note for the Prince of Wales states, This tartan, along with the red form, was issued by the Vyella Co. It was originally meant for the Rothesay (see #1533) but the division showing the single white line was omitted by mistake. Instead of withdrawing the material, the pattern was given the name Prince of Wales.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1998 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
LR/12 G8 LR4 G64 DR4 G8 DR4 G8 DR24 G12 DR24 G8 DR4 G8 DR4 G64 LR4 G/8
One full sett is 524 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/s10/g3dr6g2dr1g2dr1g16lr1g2lr3~x4/