Spirit of Scotland
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 BBBBBBBGBKB.
Part of the Spirit of Scotland tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3865
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
- 1998 (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: 3865
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2451
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2451
Thread count
DB/192 DP16 DB24 B6 DB6 B6 DB6 DG40 DP16 K6 DP/28
One full sett is 472 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as DB/192 DP16 DB24 B6 DB6 B6 DB6 DG40 DP16 K6 DP28 K6 DP16 DG40 DB6 B6 DB6 B6 DB24 DP/16 — 736 threads; it folds to the canonical 472-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| B | #0000FF #0000FF | oklch(45.2% 0.313 264.1) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #5A008C #5A008C | oklch(37.0% 0.191 306.3) |
| DP | #5A008C #5A008C | oklch(37.0% 0.191 306.3) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
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