Trost
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 GRRRWRWRGRBRBRGRWRWRRRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 23 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5343
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Trost (register-of-tartans, record)
A tartan as a birthday present from his colleagues for a senior member of staff (probably the boss) at Trost GmbH in Stuttgart-Wangen. Organised through the Scottish Tartans Authority's and designed by Robin Elliot of A Elliot Fine Fabrics with colour input from Trost. The red needs a tinge of orange. See the sample. (Pantone 17-1462 is about it.) - 2002 — Trost (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
A tartan as a birthday present from his colleagues for a senior member of staff (probably the boss) at Trost GmbH in Stuttgart-Wangen. Organised through the STA and designed by Robin Elliot of A Elliot Fine Fabrics with colour input from Trost.
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
- 2002 (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: 5343
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3811
Thread count
G/8 Ri4 R4 Ri48 W4 Ri6 W6 Ri6 G20 R20 T4 R8 T4 R20 G20 Ri6 W6 Ri4 W4 Ri48 R4 Ri4 G/8
One full sett is 516 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| R | #800028 #800028 | oklch(38.2% 0.152 14.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| R | #D4380C #D4380C | oklch(57.5% 0.198 34.5) |
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/s23/g4ri2r2ri24w2ri3w3ri3g10r10t2r4t2r10g10ri3w3ri2w2ri24r2ri2g4x2ri2308036-r1506019/