Great Scot
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 BWBBRBRBRBBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1521
Provenance
Earliest known date: Jan 2004 Fashion tartan from Marton Mills of Yorkshire launched at the 2004 International Gift Fair in Glasgow. "Designed as a modern multi-purpose tartan that can be worn with pride on any occasion."
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — Great Scot (register-of-tartans, record)
Fashion tartan from Marton Mills of Yorkshire launched at the 2004 International Gift Fair in Glasgow. 'Designed as a modern multi-purpose tartan that can be worn with pride on any occasion.' - Jan 2004 — Great Scot (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Fashion tartan from Marton Mills of Yorkshire launched at the 2004 International Gift Fair in Glasgow. "Designed as a modern multi-purpose tartan that can be worn with pride on any occasion." - Jan 2004 — Great Scot (Fashion) Fashion Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 2004 (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: 1521
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6106
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2980
Thread count
DBi/12 LB6 DBi52 DB41 O12 DP6 O12 DP6 O12 DB41 DBi52 LB/6
One full sett is 498 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
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/dbi12lb6dbi52db41o12dp6o12~dbi1406275-db1404245/