Spar (UK) Ltd
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 GKBKBKBKGWGR.
Part of the Spar Ltd 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=3852
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1996 — Spar (UK) Ltd (register-of-tartans, record)
Spar is a UK based grocery chain and this tartan was designed for their 1997 conference in Scotland. The tartan was launched at a dinner at Blair Castle in Perthshire on 6th May 1997. - pre 2008 — Spar (UK) Ltd (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Spar is a UK based grocery chain and thisasymmetric tartan was designed for their 1997 conference in Scotland. The tartan was launched at a dinner at Blair Castle in Perthshire on 6th May 1997.
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
- 1996 (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: 3852
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2353
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2353
Thread count
G/36 K36 T40 K4 T8 K8 T40 K36 G36 W4 G8 R/4
One full sett is 480 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s12/g9k9t10k1t2k2t10k9g9w1g2r1~x4/