Diana Princess of Wales Memorial
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 GWGBKWGWGWKWRWKWGWGWKBGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 24 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=932
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Diana Princess of Wales Memorial (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Alistair Buchan, Chairman of Lochcarron of Scotland to commemorate the life of Diana Princess of Wales and to raise money for her many charities. The design first appeared in September of 1997 and was relaunched by George Russell, chief executive of Scotland the Brand in December 1998. - 1997 — Diana Princess of Wales Mem. (Commem (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Alistair Buchan, Chairman of Lochcarron of Scotland to commemorate the life of Diana Princess of Wales and to raise money for her many charities. The design first appeared in September of 1997 and was relaunched by George Russell, chief executive of Scotland the Brand in December 1998. Royalties now go the 'Diana Award' charity.
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
- 1997 (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: 932
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2515
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2515
Thread count
Y/8 W4 Y48 DT24 K12 W4 G4 W4 G16 W8 K4 W4 R4 W4 K4 W8 G16 W4 G4 W4 K12 DT24 Y48 W/4
One full sett is 540 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| 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/s13/y2w1y12dt6k3w1g1w1g4w2k1w1r1~x4/