Bruce (Vestiarium)
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 GRGRGRGRGRW.
Part of the Bruce 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=399
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1797 — Bruce (Vestiarium) (register-of-tartans, record)
This Vestiarium Scoticum sett was approved by Lord Bruce, Earl of Elgin in 1967 who believed he had independent evidence dating back to 1571 (a weaver's chart with threadcount) which was subsequently lost. The original included black guards on the white and yellow (see STR #398) but in this personal variation Lord Bruce dropped them. The same sett is recorded in Clans Originaux (1880). The earliest known date recorded here is from a list compiled by D C Stewart from Wilsons of Bannockburn letters. - 1797 — Bruce (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This V.S. sett was approved by Lord Bruce, Earl of Elgin in 1967 who believed he had independent evidence dating back to 1571 - a weaver's chart with threadcount which was subsequently lost. The original included black guards on the white and yellow (see 1821) but in this personal variation Lord Bruce dropped them. Clans Originaux of 1880 agrees with this sett. Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection. Oct. 2007: The earliest known date recorded here is from a list compiled by D C Stewart from Wilsons of Bannockburn letters. - undated — Bruce (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
- 1797 (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: 399
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1848
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1848
Thread count
Y/4 R32 G8 R8 G24 R4 G24 R8 G8 R32 W/4
One full sett is 304 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/y1r8g2r2g6r1g6r2g2r8w1~x4/