Jack Sinclair (Personal)
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 BBBKGWB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3793
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1977 — Jack Sinclair (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed by Maureen Sinclair for the personal and exclusive use of her husband, John Gordon (Jack) Sinclair MVO, and their immediate family. It was based on the Ancient Hunting Sinclair and approved by the Earl of Caithness. Jack Sinclair, the Scottish Showband leader, performed many times for the Royal family at Balmoral over 51 years. He wore this tartan for his investiture at Buckingham Palace in December 2001. - pre 2002 — Sinclair, Blue (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
A private design by Mareen Sinclair for Jack Sinclair which has been approved by the Earl of Caithness.
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
- 1977 (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: 3793
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2047
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2047
Thread count
DB/8 DR4 DB80 K22 G4 W32 DR/4
One full sett is 296 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) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/db4dr2db40k11g2w16dr2~x2/