Scotland's National
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 BWBBBKGKGKGKBKBKBKGKGKGKBBBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 28 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3682
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1993 — Scotland's National (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Michael King of Philip King Kiltmakers, George St., Abredeen. Woven by Lochcarron and launched on St Andrew's Day 1993. A modification of Black Watch / Campbell. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Thought to have originally been woven by D C Dalgliesh but large quantity dictated a move to Lochcarron. Strathmore Woollen Company sample. Now woven by Marton Mills (Aug 2005). - 01/01/1994 — Scottish National (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed originally for the Scottish National Party but now manufactured and sold without the political association. There is some similarity in the proportions of the sett to the National Tartan produced by the Scottish Woollen Manufacturers Association in 1934. The tartan has been recorded by the Scottish Tartans Society.1994.
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
- 1993 (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: 3730
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2154
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2154
Thread count
DT/24 W4 DT4 DR4 DT4 K20 DG24 K4 DG8 K4 DG24 K20 DT24 K4 DR6 K4 DT24 K20 DG24 K4 DG8 K4 DG24 K20 DT4 DR4 DT4 W/4
One full sett is 624 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #3C78C8 #3C78C8 | oklch(57.2% 0.139 256.5) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #3C7828 #3C7828 | oklch(51.4% 0.129 138.8) |
| DG | #00643C #00643C | oklch(44.3% 0.104 157.7) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LB | #C8C8C8 #C8C8C8 | oklch(83.3% 0.000 89.9) |
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/dt12w2dt2dr2dt2k10dg12k2dg4k2dg12k10dt12k2dr3x2dg1804158/