Stewart Victoria Royal Family Tartan
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 RWWWKGKWKGRKRW.
Part of the Stewart Victoria tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1676
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1886 James Grant took all of the seventy two tartans in his book, 'Tartans of the Clans of Scotland', published in 1886 by W.&A.K.Johnston, from actual specimens in use at the time. Many are identical to those found in the earlier work of W. and A.Smith in 1850. The Victoria sett was known to have been favourably regarded by that great Queen. The tartan is also known as Royal Stewart Dress.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1886 — Stewart Victoria Royal Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Stuart/Stewart Victoria (register-of-tartans, record)
James Grant took all of the seventy two tartans in his book, 'Tartans of the Clans of Scotland', published in 1886 by W & A.K.Johnston, from actual specimens in use at the time. Many are identical to those found in the earlier work of W and A.Smith in 1850. The Victoria sett was known to have been favourably regarded by the Queen. - undated — Stewart Victoria (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1886 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 4029
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1676
Thread count
R/4 W48 LB6 W6 K12 Y2 K2 W2 K2 G16 R8 K2 R4 W/2
One full sett is 226 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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 | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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.
ID: /variants/s14/r2w24lb3w3k6y1k1w1k1g8r4k1r2w1~x2/