Border Reiver, The
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 RKRKRKRKRKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=312
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1998 — Border Reiver, The (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Madam May McKerrell of Hillhouse for the Border Gathering in 1998, with the proceeds going to the Border Gathering. The Shepherd's Check (STR #3781) is/was also known as Border Reiver - a fact perhaps unknown when this one was named. - 1998 — Border Reiver, The (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Madam May McKerrell of Hillhouse for the Border Gathering in 1998 with the proceeds going to the Border Gathering. Weavers possibly Lochcarron. The Shepherd's Check (#3205 and 1253) is/was also known as Border Reiver - a fact perhaps unknown when this one was named. Note: The "i before e except after c" rule does not apply to Reiver! Woven sample - undated — Border Reiver, The (weddslist, record)
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: 312
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2471
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2471
Thread count
R/20 K20 R8 K4 R4 K4 R8 K20 R20 K4 R/8
One full sett is 212 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| M | #CA047B #CA047B | oklch(55.0% 0.225 353.8) |
| 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/r5k5r2k1r1k1r2k5r5k1r2~x4/