Presley of Memphis
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 GWBRWBWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3367
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/03/2004 — Presley of Memphis (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for Presley Tribute Artist Robert Ainsley of Port Seton, Scotland. Based on the 'America' tartan designed in 1975 and presented to US First Lady Betty Ford in 1976. That original America sett was designed by a J. Cumming of Forfar - the county adjacent to that where Elvis Presley's forebears originated. This adaptation retains the colours of the US flag and discretely introduces Elvis Presley's favourite colour pink plus a gold band to represent his legendary number of Gold Discs. The white threadcount is 42 which was the 'King's' age when he died. The narrow white is 8 threads and represents the day of the month in which he was born whilst the 8 blue represents the month of the year in which he died. - April 2004 — Presley of Memphis (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed for Presley Tribute Artist Robert Ainsley of Port Seton, Scotland. Based on the 'America' tartan designed in 1975 and presented to US First Lady Betty Ford in 1976. That original America sett was designed by a J. Cumming of Forfar - the county adjacent to that where Elvis Presley's forebears originated. This adaptation retains the colours of the US flag and discretely introduces Elvis Presley's favourite colour pink plus a gold band to represent his legendary number of Gold Discs. The white threadcount is 42 which was the 'King's' age when he died. The narrow white is 8 threads and represents the day of the month in which he was born whilst the 8 blue represents the month of the year in which he died.
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
- 01/03/2004 (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: 3367
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6237
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2993
Thread count
R/8 W8 DB8 W42 Ri2 DB84 W2 DY/8
One full sett is 308 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #A00000 #A00000 | oklch(44.3% 0.182 29.2) |
| R | #E87878 #E87878 | oklch(70.0% 0.139 21.2) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/dy4w1db42ri1w21db4w4r4x2ri2806019-r1807033/