Braveheart
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 KRGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGWGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=340
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1995 — Braveheart (register-of-tartans, record)
A joint design between Charles Knode i/c of the Shepperton Studios wardrobe dept and Gordon Cavell of the Islay Woollen Mill on the Hebridean isle of Islay for Mel Gibson's 1995 Braveheart epic. Charles Knode sent Gordon a sports jacket and asked him to create a tartan/tweed from it. Since this is very much a tweed design rather than a tartan, with some marled yarns included, its graphic is not at all accurate but gives a rough idea of the dimensions and layout. - 1995 — Braveheart (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. A joint design between Charles Knode i/c of the Shepperton Studios wardrobe dept and Gordon Cavell of the Islay Wollen Mill on the Hebridean isle of Islay for Mel Gibson's 1995 Braveheart epic. Charles Knode sent Gordon a sports jacket and asked him to creater a tartan/tweed from it. Since this is very much a tweed design rather than a tartan, with some marled yarns included, its graphic is not at all accurate but gives a rough idea of the dimensions and layout. A woven sample is deposited in the STA archives.
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
- 1995 (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: 340
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3116
Thread count
W/42 DY2 W2 DY2 W2 DY2 W2 DY2 W2 DY2 W2 DY2 W2 DY2 W2 DY2 W2 DY2 W2 DY2 O40 K/4
One full sett is 202 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
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/s22/w21dy1w1dy1w1dy1w1dy1w1dy1w1dy1w1dy1w1dy1w1dy1w1dy1o20k2~x2/