Tokyo Bluebells (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 BRBRBKBW.
Part of the Tokyo Bluebells tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2538
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 1995 Used by a Scottish Country Dance club from Tokyo, Japan. Designed by Donald & Fiona Fraser now (Oct 2002) of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1995 — Tokyo Bluebells (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Used by a Scottish Country Dance club from Tokyo, Japan. Designed by Donald & Fiona Fraser now (Oct 2002) of Berwick-upon-Tweed. - pre 1995 — Tokyo Bluebells Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1997 — Tokyo Bluebells (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
Used by a Scottish Country Dance club from Tokyo, Japan. Designed by Donald & Fiona Fraser now (October 2002) of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
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 1995 (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: 4134
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2538
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2538
Thread count
T/72 R4 T4 R4 T4 K28 T52 W/8
One full sett is 272 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/t18r1t1r1t1k7t13w2~x4/