Royal Air Force Lossiemouth
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 BWBWGBKGKY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3587
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/05/1993 — Royal Air Force Lossiemouth (register-of-tartans, record)
The RAF Lossiemouth tartan was designed on behalf of the Station by John Gillespie of Johnsons fo Elgin in 1993. RAF Lossiemouth was founded in 1939, but was handed over to the Fleet Air Arm and re named HMS Fulmar. Royal Naval Air Station Lossiemouth for the period 1946-1972. Therefore, against a background of Royal Air Force and Royal Navy Blues, the tartan incorporates the colours of the Squadrons which are serving, or have served in the recent past, at Lossiemouth. Permission for the use or production of the RAF Lossiemouth tartan should be requested directly from the Station by email (los-mediaandcomms@mod.uk) or by telephone (01343 817934). - 1993 — RAF Lossiemouth (Military) (tartans-authority, record)
The RAF Lossiemouth tartan was designed on behalf of the Station by John Gillespie of Johnstons of Elgin in 1993. RAF Lossiemouth was founded in 1939, but was handed over to the Fleet Air Arm and renamed HMS Fulmar, Royal Naval Air Station Lossiemouth for the period 1946-1972. The RAF once again assumed command of the Station in 1972 and it reverted to its original name of RAF Lossiemouth. Therefore, against a background of Royal Air Force and Royal Navy blues, the tartan incorporates the colours of the Squadrons which are serving, or have served in the recent past, at Lossiemouth. Permission for the use or production of the RAF Lossiemouth tartan should be requested directly from the Station by email on los-mediaandcomms@mod.uk or by telephone on 01343 817934.
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
- 01/05/1993 (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: 3587
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2188
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2188
Thread count
LO/6 K10 G4 K40 DB16 G6 LB36 DR4 LB36 N/6
One full sett is 316 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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.
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