Princess Mary #2
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 GBKYKYKGBKBY.
Part of the Princess Mary tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3409
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1930 — Princess Mary #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
It was popular in the 1920s to name fashion tartans after members of the Royal Family of the day and one explanation says that the Princess Mary comes into this category. Originally described in 1930 as the Green Stuart, it - and colour variations - has been marketed since that date as the Princess Mary. #735 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) from West Coast Woolen Mills of Vancouver is a corrupted version of this.An alternative note from Hary Linldey says: 'In the early 1930s a few of the Royal Family wished to wear a tartan other than the Royal, Dress or Hunting Stewart. This tartan was designed and became known as Princess Mary Tartan. The same applies to Princess Beatrice.' - 1930s — Princess Mary (Royal) (tartans-authority, record)
It was popular in the 1920s to name fashion tartans after members of the Royal Family of the day and one explanation says that the Princess Mary comes into this category. Originally described in 1930 as the Green Stuart, it - and colour variations - has been marketed since that date as the Princess Mary. #0735 from West Coast Woolen Mills of Vancouver is a corrupted version of this. An alternative note from Hary Lindley says" In the early 1930s a few of the Royal Family wished to wear a tartan other than the Royal, Dress or Hunting Stewart. This tartan was designed and became known as Princess Mary Tartan. The same applies to Princess Beatrice."
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
- 1930 (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: 3409
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5449
Thread count
G/104 T8 K12 LY4 K4 LR4 K4 G16 DR8 K4 DR8 LR/4
One full sett is 252 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/s12/g26t2k3ly1k1lr1k1g4dr2k1dr2lr1~x4/