Rollo
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 BKBKGGGKGRGK.
Part of the Rollo 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=3542
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1946 — Rollo (register-of-tartans, record)
An asymmetric sett. Lyon Court Book. LCB 49 dated 5th October 1984. Count: R6 G30 K30 Az30 K4 Az30 K30 G30 Y6 G30 K30 G30. As with very many tartans there are alternative counts documented for Rollo and the woven samples do not adhere to any of them. Dark blue is shown here and in the samples but the Lyon count and other counts call for azure. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Mid blue sample and light blue sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection. There is a note in the Scottish Tartans Authority's records saying: 'Woven at the request of the Late Lord Rollo 1946. Rollo Society formed Mid 1970s. D.C. Dalgliesh in Old Colours only'. D.C. Dalgliesh wove in 1976. - pre 1946 — Rollo (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
An asymmetric sett. Lyon Court Book. LCB 49 dated 5th October 1984. Count: R6 G30 K30 Az30 K4 Az30 K30 G30 Y6 G30 K30 G30. As with very many tartans there are alternative counts documented for Rollo and the woven samples do not adhere to any of them. Dark blue is shown here and in the samples but the Lyon count and other counts call for azure. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Mid blue sample and light blue sample in STA Dalgety Collection. There is a note in the STA records saying "Woven at the request of the Late Lord Rollo 1946. Rollo Society formed? Mid 1970s. DCD (Dalgliesh) in Old Colours only". DCD wove in 1976.
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
- 1946 (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: 3542
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1971
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1971
Thread count
K/42 G42 R8 G42 K42 G42 Y8 G42 K42 DB42 K6 DB/42
One full sett is 716 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s12/k21g21r4g21k21g21y4g21k21db21k3db21~x2/