Duke of Edinburgh (Fashion)
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 GRGRGKBKBKBKGWGWGKBKBKBKGWKWGRKRWR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 34 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3983
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1955 — Duke of Edinburgh (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
From paper in Jack Dalgety Archives. From a plaid in the Paisley Museum said to be the only specimen of this sett in existance. It was exhibited at the Royal Highland Show in June 1955. A Mr Drennan won 1st prize for a handloom plaid of this sett. He was no doubt the designer as well - see #640 for the Paisley tartan which he designed in 1952. - undated — Duke of Edinburgh (register-of-tartans, record)
From paper in Jack Dalgety Archives. From a plaid in the Paisley Museum said to be the only specimen of this sett in existence. It was exhibited at the Royal Highland Show in June 1955. A Mr Drennan won 1st prize for a handloom plaid of this sett. He was no doubt the designer as well - see #640 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) for the Paisley tartan which he designed in 1952.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 1955 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 4837
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3983
Thread count
DG/84 R6 DG8 R16 DG14 K8 DB6 K2 DB6 K2 DB6 K2 DG4 LB3 DG16 LB3 DG4 K6 DB8 K3 DB6 K3 DB8 K10 Y3 W3 K3 W6 DG16 R8 K3 R4 W4 R/4
One full sett is 488 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s34/dg84r6dg8r16dg14k8db6k2db6k2db6k2dg4lb3dg16lb3dg4k6db8k3db6k3db8k10y3w3k3w6dg16r8k3r4w4r4/