Scottish Parliament (unofficial)
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 BGKGBKY.
Part of the Scottish Parliament tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3738
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1998 — Scottish Parliament (unofficial) (register-of-tartans, record)
Unofficial' tartan designed by Ronnie Hek of the Flavour of Scotland Company as a design to commemorate the 1998 Scottish Parliament. Sanctioned by the Scottish Tartans Society. The Scottish Tartans Authority would not have accepted this name without documentary proof that it had been accepted by the Scottish Parliament and therefore classifies it as 'Fashion' rather than 'Corporate'. Created in 1998 to celebrate the Referendum result for the re-establishment of a Scottish Parliament as well as to provide a Parliamentary livery tartan. This tartan is registered under the "1988 Design Act" Registration No: 0602797. - 1998 — Scottish Parliament (Unauthorised) (tartans-authority, record)
'Unofficial' tartan designed by Ronnie Hek & his wife Gail of the Flavour of Scotland Company as a design to commemorate the 1998 Scottish Parliament. Sanctioned by the Scottish Tartan Society but not accepted by the Scottish Parliament. June 2009 saw the introduction of the official Scottish Parliament tartan to celebrate the Parliament's 10th Anniversary.
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
- 1998 (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: 3738
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2477
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2477
Thread count
DB/28 G36 K6 G36 DR40 K28 LO/6
One full sett is 326 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| 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/s7/db14g18k3g18dr20k14lo3~x2/