Elgin-Landshut

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 RBGKGKGKWKBKGW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1098

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/04/1997 — Elgin-Landshut (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed to celebrate the twinning of the towns of Elgin and Landshut in Bavaria, Germany in the 1950s. The colours used are those of the towns, Elgin and Landshut (red and white), plus the national colours of Scotland and Bavaria (blue and white).
  • Apr 1997 — Elgin-Landshut (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed to celebrate the twinning of the towns of Elgin and Landshut in Bavaria, Germany in the 1950s. The colours used are those of the towns, Elgin and Landshut (red and white), plus the national colours of Scotland and Bavaria (blue and white).
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
01/04/1997 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

R/8 DB48 G8 K8 G8 K8 G48 K8 LB8 K8 DB24 K24 G24 W/8

One full sett is 464 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

R/8 DB48 G8 K8 G8 K8 G48 K8 LB8 K8 DB24 K24 G24 W/8 tartan

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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