Firenze ~ Florence
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 BGWRBRWGBGBGBGWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1190
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/2005 — Firenze ~ Florence (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on an ancient woven artefact dating from 400 to 1200 BC discovered in the Halstatt region of Austria which was once part of the ancient Etruscan civilisation. The red, yellow and white are from the Coat of Arms, not only of the City of Florence itself, but also of the great Medici family whose artistic bequest has made Florence one of the world's greatest cultural centres. The ivory white can also represent the City's incomparable collection of classic statues and the blue lines in the yellow bands represent the River Arno flowing through the Tuscan landscape and the City of Florence. The green, white, blue and red are the team colours of Florence's legendary costume football game - calcio storico fiorentino which dates back to Roman times. Finally, to bring the Firenze Tartan into the 21st century, the broad purple band represents Fiorentina - the City's famous football team and nestling in that purple band is the green, white and red of the Italian flag. - 2005 August — Firenze ~ Florence (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Commissioned from the Scottish Tartans Authority in 2004. "Based on an ancient woven artefact dating from 400 to 1200 BC discovered in the Halstatt region of Austria which was once part of the ancient Etruscan civilisation. The red, yellow and white are from the Coat of Arms, not only of the City of Florence itself, but also of the great Medici family whose artistic bequest has made Florence one of the world's greatest cultural centres. The ivory white can also represent the City's incomparable collection of classic statues and the blue lines in the yellow bands represent the River Arno flowing through the Tuscan landscape and the City of Florence. The green, white, blue and red are the team colours of Florence?s legendary costume football game - calcio storico fiorentino which dates back to Roman times. Finally, to bring the Firenze Tartan into the 21st century, the broad purple band represents Fiorentina - the City?s famous football team and nestling in that purple band is the green, white and red of the Italian flag.
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
- 01/08/2005 (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: 1190
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6756
Thread count
R/92 W2 Y6 DB2 Y6 DB2 Y6 DB2 Y6 W2 R92 DP28 R4 W4 G4 DP/28
One full sett is 452 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s16/r46w1y3db1y3db1y3db1y3w1r46dp14r2w2g2dp14~x2/