Boston Pipe Band, Greater
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 GRGRGWKRWRWRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5419
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1985 — Boston Pipe Band, Greater (register-of-tartans, record)
Same sett as MacDonald of Clanranald with a much lighter blue. Sindex notes say 'Claimed to have been designed and worn by the band since 1985.' - pre 2002 — Boston Pipe Band, Greater (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
Same sett as MacDonald of Clanranald. Blue is much lighter though. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection - handwoven by Sally Dee. Sindex notes say "Claimed to have been designed and worn by the band since 1985."
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
- 1985 (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: 5419
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3866
Thread count
DG/32 R4 DG8 R8 DG48 W4 K48 R4 LB48 R8 LB8 R4 LB/32
One full sett is 448 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s13/dg8r1dg2r2dg12w1k12r1lb12r2lb2r1lb8~x4/