Patriot, The (Fashion)
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 KBKBKBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7343
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2009 The Patriot tartan has been especially designed for those proud of their Scots connections. The colours in the design are navy blue, black, royal blue and white. The influence for the design comes from the Douglas tartan, in homage to one of Scotland's greatest patriots, Sir James (Black) Douglas.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
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
- Sept 2007 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5459
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7343
Thread count
K/20 DB8 K68 DT4 K4 DT60 W/6
One full sett is 314 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DT | #2C3C44 #2C3C44 | oklch(34.6% 0.025 230.0) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/k10db4k34dt2k2dt30w3x2db1106275-dt1401240/