Melrose (District)
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 GKGRGBGKGKRKR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3926
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2001 March — Melrose (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Supported by Melrose Community Council and Traders' Association for promotional purposes and specifically for a gift in the new tartan to Her Majesty the Queen who visited Melrose in the spring of 2002, chosen as the final venue for the Queen's Jubilee Celebrations in Scotland. Lochcarron swatch. - undated — Melrose (register-of-tartans, record)
Supported by Melrose Community Council and Traders' Association. To be used for promotional purposes and specifically for a gift in the new tartan to Her Majesty the Queen who will be visiting Melrose in the spring (2002) which has been chosen as the final venue for the Queen's Jubilee Celebrations in Scotland. Lochcarron swatch.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 2001 March (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5155
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3926
Thread count
R/128 K4 R4 K12 G4 K4 G4 N4 G12 R10 G4 K12 Y/4
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s13/r64k2r2k6g2k2g2n2g6r5g2k6y2~x2/