Erskine Veterans
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 GBKGRGKBWW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5870
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/04/2006 — Erskine Veterans (register-of-tartans, record)
A tartan to commemorate the 90th aniversary of Eskine, a charity which cares for ex-service men and women throughout Scotland. It provides an identity of which they are proud, raises awareness and money for Care Homes. - August 2006 — Erskine Veterans (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
In 2005, when it was decided that the existing regiments in Scotland would be merged into the Royal Regiment of Scotland, Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh was approached by Colonel Robert Watson with the idea of a tartan, which was a composite identity and included colours found in all existing regiments. The background to the design was the Government Tartan number 1A (known as The Black Watch), worn by the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. However, following a period of consultation it was decided that the new tartan would not be adopted. There was an opportunity to use the design, which relates to the heritage and history of the Scottish Regiments and adapt it one stage further to include not only the Regiments of Scotland, but also to identify dark blue as representing the Royal Nay and in addition to feature azure blue for the Royal Airforce. Erskine's Chief Executive Colonel Martin Gibson, saw the opportunity to adopt the unique Tartan and launch it as the Erskine Veterans Tartan.
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
- 01/04/2006 (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: 5870
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7008
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3154
Thread count
Y/4 DB28 K28 DG28 R4 DG28 K28 DB28 LB2 W/4
One full sett is 356 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) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/y2db14k14dg14r2dg14k14db14lb1w2~x2/