Merchiston Castle School Pipe Band
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 KWKWRWKWKBR.
Part of the Merchiston Castle School 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=2935
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1988 — Merchiston Castle School Pipe Band (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Kinloch Anderson Ltd and based on the Napier tartan as the school was founded in the 1830s in the original home of Napier of Merchiston, now part of Napier College, with an additional red line. - 1996 — Merchiston Castle School (P&D) (tartans-authority, record)
A note from Colin Hutcheson of Johnstons of Elgin 8/7/99 says that 3 years ago (c.1996) he recommended that the school adopt Cameron of Erracht for its Pipe Band. Its original tartan had been Napier with an extra red line. The connection being that the school started life in Napier Castle in Edinburgh.
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
- 1988 (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: 2935
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1234
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1234
Thread count
K/24 W12 K12 W12 R8 W26 K6 W8 K16 DB48 R/6
One full sett is 326 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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.
ID: /variants/s11/k12w6k6w6r4w13k3w4k8db24r3~x2/