Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots
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 RBKWKGKGRKRKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2844
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/12/2006 — Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Kelly M Stewart of USA Kilts, to honour Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots. The arrangement of the tartan was inspired by the Prince Charles Edward Stewart tartan. It was designed with a pinkish coloured background in recognition of the pink and red roses that the Scottish Queen reportedly loved and had planted around Holyrood Palace while she was in residence there. - December 2006 — Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots (Fash) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Kelly M. Stewart of USA Kilts, to honor Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots. The arrangement of the tartan was inspired by the Prince Charles Edward Stewart tartan. It was designed with a pinkish colored background in recognition of the pink and red roses that the Scottish Queen reportedly loved and had planted around Holyrood Palace while she was in residence there.
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
- 01/12/2006 (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: 2844
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7033
Thread count
Ri/50 DB10 K10 W8 K4 Y4 K4 G16 R12 K4 Ri6 K2 W/4
One full sett is 214 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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 | #E87878 #E87878 | oklch(70.0% 0.139 21.2) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| 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.
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