Friends of Scotland Caucus
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 RWRGWRGRWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1281
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/2007 — Friends of Scotland Caucus (register-of-tartans, record)
In August 2007, the Friends of Scotland Caucus tartan was presented by the Scottish Executive to a visiting delegation of senior US politicians who were members of the Friends of Scotland Caucus which was launched during Tartan Week in April 2006 to strengthen links between the US and Scotland. Its members include nearly 40 US Congressmen. The tartan incorporates the six white and seven red stripes from the American flag with the white cross of Scotland on a blue background of the Scottish Saltire. The green is a traditional Scottish tartan colour which can be found in the Duncan and Macintyre tartans, surnames of the co-founders of the Caucus, John Duncan and Mike Macintyre. - August 2007 — Friends of Scotland Caucus (Corp.) (tartans-authority, record)
In August 2007, the Friends of Scotland Caucus tartan was presented by the Scottish Executive to a visiting delegation of senior US politicians who were members of the Friends of Scotland Caucus which was launched during Tartan Week in April 2006 to strenghten links between the US and Scotland. Its members include nearly 40 US Congressmen. The tartan incorporates the six white and seven red stripes from the American flag with the white cross of Scotland on a blue background of the Scottish Saltire. The green is a traditional Scottish tartan colour which can be found in the Duncan and Macuntyre tartans, surnames of the co-founders of the Caucus, John Duncan and Mike Macintyre.
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
- 01/08/2007 (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: 1281
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7275
Thread count
R/6 W4 R6 DG28 W6 R6 DG4 R6 W6 DB94 W/4
One full sett is 330 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/r3w2r3dg14w3r3dg2r3w3db47w2~x2/