Scottish Institute of Sport

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 BGBRBRWWWRBRBG.

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3725

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
2005 (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

Y/8 DR46 R8 DR4 R8 LB38 W8 LB38 R8 DR4 R8 DR46 Y8 DR/4

One full sett is 460 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
R#C8002C #C8002Coklch(52.6% 0.212 22.0)
R#C80000 #C80000oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

Y/8 DR46 R8 DR4 R8 LB38 W8 LB38 R8 DR4 R8 DR46 Y8 DR/4 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.

Perry GolfManx HeritageArmy Medical ServicesChisholmMacDougall #11GlenaladaleDunblaneDunblane (District)MacIntyre (of Gatehouse)Callum, Scotch Housegroundcomplexity

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