Monarch of the Glen

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 BBGBRBBBBRBGBRBBGBGYGB.

Part of the Monarch of the Glen tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2978

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 05/07/2002 — Monarch of the Glen (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed by Claire Donaldson of House of Edgar to be added to the House of Edgar range.
  • 2002 — Monarch of the Glen (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed by Claire Donaldson of House of Edgar to be added to the House of Edgar range.
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
05/07/2002 (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

DP/84 DBi6 G2 DBi4 R2 DBi4 DP4 DB40 DBi2 R4 DBi6 G2 DBi4 R2 DBi4 DP4 G6 DBi2 G4 LY2 G4 DB/4

One full sett is 304 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#202060 #202060oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9)
DB#003C64 #003C64oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)

Sample pattern

DP/84 DBi6 G2 DBi4 R2 DBi4 DP4 DB40 DBi2 R4 DBi6 G2 DBi4 R2 DBi4 DP4 G6 DBi2 G4 LY2 G4 DB/4 tartan

ID: /variants/s22/dp42dbi3g1dbi2r1dbi2dp2db20dbi1r2dbi3g1dbi2r1dbi2dp2g3dbi1g2ly1g2db2x2dbi3409246-db2911276/

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