Stewart/Stuart - Prince Charles Edward
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 RWKWKWKGRKRWRKRGKWKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3942
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1746 'Trews worn by Prince Charles Edward'
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1745 — Stewart/Stuart - Prince Charles Edward (register-of-tartans, record)
The reason for such a profusion of Prince Charles Edward tartans is said to be his habit of honouring his host 'of the day' by wearing his tartan. In his travels he obviously stayed/hid with many hosts.Trews in the West Higland Museum at Fort William. Where does this come from and is it correct? 2 x W and no Y lines - Scottish Tartans Authority May 2007. - 1745 — Stewart - Pr Ch Ed (Error?) (tartans-authority, record)
The reason for such a profusion of Prince Charles Edward tartans is said to be his habit of honouring his host 'of the day' by wearing his tartan. In his travels he obviously stayed/hid with many hosts.Trews in the West Higland Museum at Fort William. Where does this come from and is it correct? 2 x W and no Y lines - PEM May 07 - 1746 — Stuart Pr Charles Edward Artifact Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Stuart / Stewart, Pr Charles Edward (weddslist, 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
- 1745 (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: 3942
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1374
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1374
Thread count
R/32 LB20 K28 W4 K8 W6 K8 G52 R22 K8 R8 W4 R8 K8 R22 G52 K8 W6 K8 W4 K28 LB/20
One full sett is 676 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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/r16lb10k14w2k4w3k4g26r11k4r4w2~x2/