Cavalier, Green
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 GBRBWBRGBGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=599
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1981 — Cavalier, Green (register-of-tartans, record)
Swatch in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. N90, K20, Y4, K4, W4, K4, R20, N10, K2, N10, W2 is the thread count given to 1292 on Scottish Tartans Society website and called Cavalier Green. Either they have erroneously entered grey instead of green or called it green instead of grey. Their exact thread count with a new number but called Cavalier Grey had been included. Sindex notes say this was called 'Green' but the 'ground colour appears to be grey.' - pre 1981 — Cavalier, Green (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Swatch in STA's Johnston Collection. N90, K20, Y4, K4, W4, K4, R20, N10, K2, N10, W2 is the thread count given to 1292 on STS website and called Cavalier Green. Either they have erroneously entered grey instead of green or called it green instead of grey. Their exact thread count with a new number but called Cavalier Grey had been included. Sindex notes say this was called 'Green' but the "ground colour appears to be grey."
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
- 1981 (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: 599
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1292
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1292
Thread count
G/80 DT20 O4 DT4 W4 DT6 R16 G12 DT4 G8 W/4
One full sett is 240 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
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 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/g40dt10o2dt2w2dt3r8g6dt2g4w2~x2/