Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
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 BWBGBRBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3585
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Norman and Jo-Anne MacLeod Russell of MacLeods Scottish Shops, Elora, Ontario with technical input from Strathmore. For sole use by MacLeod's shops who in co-operation with the Fair's organisers are commemorating the 75th Anniversay. Colour symbolism: rb and Y(gold) represent the Royal Family's long connection with the show, Y=also the Canadian harvest, W= Canadian winter, G and R for the equestrian connection. - 1997 — Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (Comm (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Norman and Jo-Anne MacLeod Russell of MacLeods Scottish Shops, Elora, Ontario with technical input from Strathmore. For sole use by MacLeod's shops who in co-operation with the Fair's organisers are commemorating the 75th Anniversay. Colour symbolism: rb and Y(gold) represent the Royal Family's long connection with the show, Y=also the Canadian harvest, W= Canadian winter, G and R for the equestrian connection.
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
- 1997 (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: 3585
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5408
Thread count
DB/128 W4 DB4 Y8 DB4 R4 DB16 DG/64
One full sett is 272 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| 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/s8/db32w1db1y2db1r1db4dg16~x4/