Confederate Rose
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 BWRWGWBWBWRWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=734
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — Confederate Rose (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Heather Yellowley of Strathmore Woollen Co. Ltd, Forfar, Scotland. Commissioned by Lynda R O'Neal, Jolene B. Wiltsie and Alexis Malcolm to honour Rose O'Neal Greenhow who was known as 'Confederate Rose.' A colour variation of the Confederate Memorial tartan #2501 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) designed by Phil Smith, using Rose pink in her honour. Purple is the symbol of mourning to commemmorate all the widows of Confederate soldiers; blue represents the 'Bonnie blue flag' first used by the Confederacy. Yellow represents the desire to communicate the sacrifice made by her for the cause; grey is the colour of the Confederate uniform and the white background is for the purity of their intentions. - pre 2004 — Confederate Rose (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Heather Yellowley of Strathmore Woollen Co. Ltd, Forfar, Scotland. Commissioned by Lynda R O'Neal, Jolene B. Wiltsie and Alexis Malcolm to honour Rose O'Neal Greenhow who was known as 'Confederate Rose.' A colour variation of the Confederate Memorial tartan (#2501 ~ dsgn:Phil Smith) using Rose pink in her honour. Purple is the symbol of mourning to commemmorate all the widows of Confederate soldiers; blue represents the 'Bonnie blue flag' first used by the Confederacy. Yellow represents the desire to communicate the sacrifice made by her for the cause; grey is the colour of the Confederate uniform and the white background is for the purity of their intentions.
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
- 2004 (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: 734
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6251
Thread count
DP/48 W8 M20 W8 Y8 W56 N12 W8 N12 W56 M36 W2 DB8 W/6
One full sett is 522 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| M | #CA047B #CA047B | oklch(55.0% 0.225 353.8) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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.
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