Romsdal
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 GBRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3544
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Romsdal (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society Notes: Romsdal is where the Scottish army landed in 1612 under the command of Captain Sinclair and in the pay of the Swedes. They marched through half of Norway until defeated at Kringen. Sinclair was killed by a silver button used as a 'bullitt' (sic). Many Scots settled in Norway after the battle leaving place names such as Skottlia and Skotte. Romsdal is the only place on the west coast of Norway where there is a tradition of tartans. Information source given as Aud Aslaksen, Romsdalsmuseet, Molde.The red could be a dark brown (earth). - pre 2002 — Romsdal (District) (tartans-authority, record)
STS: Romsdal is where the Scottish army landed in 1612 under the command of Captain Sinclair and in the pay of the Swedes. They marched through half of Norway until defeated at Kringen. Sinclair was killed by a silver button used as a 'bullitt' (sic). Many Scots settled in Norway after the battle leaving place names such as Skottlia and Skotte. Romsdal is the only place on the west coast of Norway where there is a tradition of tartans. Information source given as Aud Aslaksen, Romsdalsmuseet, Molde.The red could be a dark brown (earth).
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: 3544
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2087
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2087
Thread count
G/44 DT10 R8 DT10 R/6
One full sett is 106 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s5/g22dt5r4dt5r3~x2/