Royal College of Physicians (Corp)
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 BRKRGG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2350
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- September 1996 — Royal College of Physicians (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
Full name is Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Designed for the Royal College of Physicians (founded in 1681 for post graduate students), by Donald Fraser Weavers as a corporate tartan. Woven by Lochcarron, May 1997. Silk sample in STA Johnston Collection. - 01/01/1997 — Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (register-of-tartans, record)
Full name is Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Designed for the Royal College of Physicians (founded in 1681 for post graduate students), by Donald Fraser Weavers as a corporate tartan. Woven by Lochcarron, May 1997. Silk sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection.
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
- September 1996 (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: 3597
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2350
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2350
Thread count
DB/36 R6 K18 R6 G46 Y/6
One full sett is 194 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s6/db18r3k9r3g23y3~x2/