Royal Burgh of Peebles (District)
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 RGBGKBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5403
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1999 — Royal Burgh of Peebles (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Full name of the tartan is Royal Burgh of Peebles Centenary Tartan. Designed by the Royal Burgh of Peebles Callants Club to be gifted to the Peebles Beltane Committee to be gifted to the people of Peebles. - 01/01/2000 — Peebles Beltane Centenary (register-of-tartans, record)
Full name of the tartan is Royal Burgh of Peebles Centenary Tartan. Designed by the Royal Burgh of Peebles Callants Club to be gifted to the Peebles Beltane Committee to be gifted to the people of Peebles. Beltane is an old Celtic Festival where the fires of a community are extinguished and then relighted from a central one. It is celebrated on May day (1st May).
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
- 1999 (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: 3311
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5403
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2963
Thread count
R/6 G6 DB8 G34 K26 DT52 W/6
One full sett is 264 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/r3g3db4g17k13dt26w3~x2/