Stuart/Stewart Silver

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 BWBGBWBGGBGW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4026

Provenance

Earliest known date: 1977 1977 Jubilee tartan NOT accepted. No official jubilee tartan was adopted for the occasion.

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/1977 — Stuart/Stewart Silver (register-of-tartans, record)
    Queen Elizabeth 1977 Jubilee tartan not accepted. No official Jubilee tartan was adopted for the occasion. This is J Pringles Ltd. "Silver Stuart".
  • 1977 — Stuart Silver Commemorative 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
1977 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

N/120 LB10 N16 Y4 N8 W4 N8 G32 DY16 N4 DY8 W/4

One full sett is 344 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

N/120 LB10 N16 Y4 N8 W4 N8 G32 DY16 N4 DY8 W/4 tartan

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.

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