Black 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 BBBKBRBRBBBKBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=276
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/04/2005 — Black Rose (register-of-tartans, record)
A colour variation of Confederate Rose (STR #734) for use by the 'Society of Confederate Rose' when in mourning. Colours: purple is for the ongoing mourning of the Cause; black is for the garments of the widows and orphans of the Confederacy; grey is for the soldiers' uniforms; blue is for the bonnie blue flag and pink is for the rose - the symbol of devotion. - 2005 April — Black Rose (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
A colour variation of #6251 Confederate Rose for use by the "Society of Confederate Rose" for mourning. "Purple is for the ongoing mourning of the Cause, black is for the garments of the widows and orphans of the Confederacy, grey is for the soldiers' uniforms, blue is for our bonnie blue flag and pink is for the rose - the symbol of devotion." Woven sample.
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
- 01/04/2005 (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: 276
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6632
Thread count
R/40 DP6 K16 DP6 DB4 DP48 R4 DP6 R4 DP48 K30 DP2 N6 DP/4
One full sett is 404 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/s14/r20dp3k8dp3db2dp24r2dp3r2dp24k15dp1n3dp2~x2/