Normandy (Fashion)
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 WKGRGKWKGRKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3148
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/04/2005 — Normandy (Fashion) (register-of-tartans, record)
Commemorating the links between Scotland and Normandy, the red and yellow are the colours of the Normandy flag and black and white are the ancient colours of the North Men. Applicant requested the STA categorise the tartan as a District tartan but until such time as there is official approval from an appropriate authority in Normandy, it can only be categorised as 'Fashion'. - 2005 April — Normandy (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Commemorating the links between Scotland and Normandy, the red and yellow are the colours of the Normandy flag and black and white are the ancient colours of the North Men (?). Applicant asked for this to be categorised as a District tartan but until such time as there is official approval from a responsible government or local government body in Normandy, it can only be categorised as 'Fashion'. Woven sample from Lady Chrystel 18.5.15.
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
- 01/04/2005 (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: 3148
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6658
Thread count
W/8 K9 Y9 R21 Y6 K6 W4 K6 Y6 R49 K22 W/4
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #E8CCB8 #E8CCB8 | oklch(86.3% 0.042 57.7) |
| LO | #EC8048 #EC8048 | oklch(71.0% 0.150 46.4) |
| LO | #D87C00 #D87C00 | oklch(67.3% 0.155 61.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | oklch(97.9% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/w8k9y9r21y6k6w4k6y6r49k22w4/