Braveheart Warrior
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 KBKBKBKGBKBW.
Part of the Braveheart Warrior 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=343
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1993 Designed by Michael King of Philip King Tailoring Ltd, Aberdeen. Originally designed for Ronnie Watt, an 8th Dan in martial arts representing Scotland whose ring title was Braveheart Warrior. It has been adopted as the official tartan of the Scottish Shotokan Centre and as the Watt tartan.The design has no direct connection with the Braveheart film.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1993 — Braveheart Warrior (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Michael King of Philip King Tailoring Ltd, Aberdeen. Originally designed for Ronnie Watt, an 8th Dan in martial arts representing Scotland whose ring title was Braveheart Warrior. He fought in Japan, being of small statue the Japanese called him the Scottish Samaroi Warrior, or" Little Braveheart Warrior," This Tartan was designed for him in 1995. Now a Universal Tartan. It has been adopted as the official tartan of the Scottish Shotokan Centre and as the Watt tartan. The design has no direct connection with the Braveheart film. Another Watt(s)/MacWatts was submitted by the Celtic Craft in 2005. - STR #2774. - 1993 — Braveheart Warrior Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 1993 (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: 343
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2231
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2231
Thread count
K/96 DB8 K12 DP4 K4 DP8 K4 DG20 DR8 K4 DR8 LB/4
One full sett is 260 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/k24db2k3dp1k1dp2k1dg5dr2k1dr2lb1~x4/