Duke of York (Royal)
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 BGBGRWRB.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=577
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1918 — Duke of York (Royal) (tartans-authority, record)
The "Inverness hunting" is sometimes called "Duke of York" because he is also Earl of Inverness. This count is taken from "Tartan: the Highland Textile" It was first worn by King George V while Duke of York and Earl of Inverness. In 1930 it was worn by King George VI when he in turn held the titles. For display purposes the count has been halfed. The following is an extract from the Oban Times 9th August 1930: "The tartan of the kilt worn by the Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, when in Lochaber last week, attracted considerable attention, as being of an unusual pattern. It actually is the tartan of the Earl of Inverness, the same pattern having been worn by King George V when he bore the title. The tartan, we may say, has somewhat the colouring of that of MacLaine of Lochbuie, being of deep blue, with red and yellow and white lines." This quote taken from the Sindex card which also has DW Stewar'ts handwritten comment: 'From the records of Messrs James Johnston, New Mill, Elgin. History and date unknown.' Date changed 11th March 2015. Burberry Catalogue produced during WWI by John Ross lists theDuke of Inverness as a Royal Tartan. - 01/01/1930 — Duke of York (register-of-tartans, record)
The 'Inverness hunting' is sometimes called 'Duke of York' because he is also Earl of Inverness. This count is taken from 'Tartan: the Highland Textile' It was first worn by King George V while Duke of York and Earl of Inverness. In 1930 it was worn by King George VI when he in turn held the titles. For display purposes the count has been halfed. The following is an extract from the Oban Times 9th August 1930: 'The tartan of the kilt worn by the Duke of York, Earl of Inverness, when in Lochaber last week, attracted considerable attention, as being of an unusual pattern. It actually is the tartan of the Earl of Inverness, the same pattern having been worn by King george V when he bore the title. The tartan, we may say, has somewhat the colouring of that of MacLaine of Lochbuie, being of deep blue, with red and yellow and white lines.' This quote taken from the Sindex card which also has D.W. Stewar'ts handwritten comment: 'From the records of Messrs James Johnston, New Mill, Elgin. History and date unknown.'
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
- pre 1918 (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: 1011
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 577
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 577
Thread count
DB/122 R12 W4 R16 Y4 DB6 Y4 DB/30
One full sett is 244 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/db61r6w2r8y2db3y2db15~x2/