Duchess of Fife #2
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 GKGKBK.
Part of the Duchess of Fife tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1003
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Duchess of Fife #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
Despite the claim, this does not appear in Clans Originaux. Variation of Duke of Fife. Woven in green instead of customary blue-green. from Peter MacDonald collection, Stone Mountain Games, in 1994. It has been accepted as fact for very many years that J Claude's 1880 'Clans Originaux' contained many Irish tartans. In 2003 the Tartans Authority obtained photo copies of the contents pages of the only copy known to exist and they revealed that of the 185 tartans shown, not one of them was Irish. This 'fiction' has been absorbed into tartan history unfortunately and it will take many years to eradicate.. The only copy known to exist is owned by Pendleton Mills of Portland, Oregon - pre 2002 — Duchess of Fife (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Despite the claim, this does not appear in Clans Originaux. Variation of Duke of Fife. Woven in green instead of customary blue-green. from Peter MacDonald collection, Stone Mountain Games, in 1994. It has been accepted as fact for very many years that J Claude's 1880 'Clans Originaux' contained many Irish tartans. In 2003 the Tartans Authority obtained photo copies of the contents pages of the only copy known to exist and they revealed that of the 185 tartans shown, not one of them was Irish. This 'fiction' has been absorbed into tartan history unfortunately and it will take many years to eradicate..
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: 1003
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4730
Thread count
G/140 K52 G24 K28 DB6 K/32
One full sett is 392 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) |
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/g70k26g12k14db3k16~x2/