Edinburgh Marketing
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.
Part of the Edinburgh Marketing tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1082
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Edinburgh Marketing (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society records note that the tartan was based on the Drummond tartan after the famous Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Lord Drummond. He is regarded as the father of the New Town and the 'bridge' between the Old Town of Edinburgh and the New Town. The colours are the corporate colours of Edinburgh Marketing: navy, red and white. - pre 2002 — Edinburgh Marketing (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
STS records state: The tartan was based on the Drummond tartan after the famous Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Lord Drummond, who is regarded as the father of the New Town and the ''bridge'' between the Old town of Edinburgh and the New Town. The colours are the corporate colours of Edinburgh Marketing, Navy, Red and White. The small sett size means that this verges on being regarded as a check rather than a tartan.
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
- 2002 (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: 1082
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2106
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2106
Thread count
DB/24 R4 DB4 R8 W4 R8 DB4 R/12
One full sett is 100 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) |
| 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/db6r1db1r2w1r2db1r3~x4/