Duke of Rothesay (Royal)
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 RWBWKWKWKWRKRW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1678
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1950 — Duke of Rothesay (Royal) (tartans-authority, record)
STS notes say that this was previously classified as 'Unidentified' in Sindex and presumably became identified when some MacGregor-Hastie notes were studied. No further information. It's been suggested that this might be a district tartan but in the absence of any proof, it remains as a Royal. - undated — Rothesay, Duke of #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
Previously marked 'Unidentified' in Sindex The.MacGregor-Hastie collection is found in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — Rothesay, Duke of (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 1950 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 3577
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1678
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1678
Thread count
R/12 W112 DB18 W16 K32 W8 K6 W8 K6 W72 R72 K6 R24 W/6
One full sett is 778 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
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/r6w56db9w8k16w4k3w4k3w36r36k3r12w3~x2/