Edinburgh TIC (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 BRBRWRBR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3944
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Late 1980's — Edinburgh TIC (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed for the Edinburgh Tourist Information Centre in the Waverley Market shopping centre, Edinburgh. stwr NOTES: "Created in 1995 on the amalgamation of the Edinburgh and the Lothian Tourist Boards. The colours are taken from the new logo and based on Drummond tartan as in the Edinburgh Marketing Tartan (STWR No: 2106). This celebrates the past Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Lord Drummond, who is regarded as the father of the new town and the "bridge" between the new and old towns." - undated — Edinburgh TIC (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for the Edinburgh Tourist Information Centre in the Waverley Market shopping centre, Edinburgh.
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
- Late 1980's (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: 4980
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3944
Thread count
DB/64 R6 DB6 R8 W6 R10 DB8 R/14
One full sett is 166 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s8/db32r3db3r4w3r5db4r7~x2/