Scout Mapping Service #1 (Corporate)

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 BBGRGKY.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3824

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 1979 — Scout Mapping Service #1 (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
    Taken from STS Sindex card May 2002. This tartan was approved by the STS 18th April 1979.
  • undated — Scout Mapping Service (register-of-tartans, record)
    Taken from Scottish Tartans Society Sindex card May 2002. This tartan was approved by the Scottish Tartans Society 18th April 1979.
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
1979 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DB/48 DR16 DG16 R4 G16 K2 LY/4

One full sett is 160 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
G#289C18 #289C18oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6)
DG#006818 #006818oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)

Sample pattern

DB/48 DR16 DG16 R4 G16 K2 LY/4 tartan

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.

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