King George IV
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 GYGRBWRBRWBRGRBWRWBRGRBWRBRWBRGY.
Part of the King George tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 32 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1983
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
- 1824 (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: 1983
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5353
Thread count
LR/12 DG12 R96 DP4 W4 R12 DP24 R12 W4 DP4 R12 DG96 R12 DP4 W4 R96 W4 DP4 R12 DG96 R12 DP4 W4 R12 DP24 R12 W4 DP4 R96 DG12 LR12 DG/12
One full sett is 1440 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| LR | #FCA098 #FCA098 | oklch(79.6% 0.111 25.2) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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/s32/dg3lr3dg3r24dp1w1r3dp6r3w1dp1r3dg24r3dp1w1r24w1dp1r3dg24r3dp1w1r3dp6r3w1dp1r24dg3lr3x4lr3204029-r2109032/