Scottish Rugby Union
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 BKBKGRGRGKWKGRGRGKBK.
Part of the Scottish Rugby Union tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3743
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1991 — Scottish Rugby Union (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Chris Aitken of Geoffrey Tailor (Highland) Crafts. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. Originally woven by D C Dalgliesh but now said to be woven by Geoffrey (Tailor) themselves. enquiries@geoffreykilts.co.uk. S.R.U. requested that the Navy of their jersey should be prominent, including the green and lilac of the thistle, and the white of the shorts. This version is approved by the Scottish Rugby Union, 1990. - pre 1991 — Scottish Rugby Union (Sports) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Chris Aitken of Geoffrey Tailor (Highland) Crafts. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Originally woven by D C Dalgliesh but now said to be woven by Geoffrey (Tailor) themselves. Tel: 0131 557 0256. enquiries@geoffreykilts.co.uk S.R.U. requested that the Navy of their jersey should be prominent, including the green and lilac of the thistle, and the white of the shorts.
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
- 1991 (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: 3743
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2101
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2101
Thread count
DB/12 K4 DB48 K20 G4 O4 G4 O4 G20 K4 LB6 K4 G20 O4 G4 O4 G4 K20 DB48 K/4
One full sett is 468 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/s11/db6k2db24k10g2o2g2o2g10k2lb3~x2/