Fleming/Frisken/Flanders
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 BKBKBKBKGKBKBKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1204
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1997 Kilt was created for Scotland Flanders 2002 as a cultural exchange product.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Fleming/Frisken/Flanders (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society notes say designed by Polly Wittering of House of Edgar. Kilt was created for Scotland Flanders 2002 as a cultural exchange product. - 1997 — Fleming/Frisken/Flanders (Commem.) (tartans-authority, record)
Tartan Society notes say designed by Polly Wittering of House of Edgar. Kilt was created for Scotland Flanders 2002 as a cultural exchange product. Looking at the conflicting dates (1997 and 2002) it may be that the kilt in question was made in 2002 from the tartan which was designed in 1997. The design is very closely based on the Murray of Atholl tartan - which it is claimed, can be worn by Flemings for reasons of 'friendship' (Phil Smith in 'Tartan for Me'). From Wikipedia: "Flemish (Vlaams in Dutch) is a popular informal term to refer to Belgian Dutch (Belgisch-Nederlands in Dutch), Dutch as spoken in Belgium. - 1997 — Fleming Commemorative Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 1997 (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: 1204
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2531
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2531
Thread count
DB/32 K6 DB6 K6 DB6 K32 DB34 K4 DY8 K4 DB34 K32 DB34 K4 W/8
One full sett is 460 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) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s15/db16k3db3k3db3k16db17k2dy4k2db17k16db17k2w4~x2/