Fulton (1999) (Name)
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 BKRGRGRKR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3952
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1993 — Fulton (1999) (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
From 'Tartans' by Johnston/Smith 1999. Designed by Dr Phil Smith as an alternative for those who found the other 'Fulton' at 2205 unattractive. An unwise and dangerous precedent to set! Robert Fulton developed the first practical steamboat and was a native of Lancaster County in Pennsylvaina where his boyhood house can still be seen. Thought to have been registered with the Scottish Tartans Society in 1993. - undated — Fulton (1999) (register-of-tartans, record)
From 'Tartans' by Johnston/Smith. See also #2205 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) - the source of this later (#3952, original Scottish tartans Authority reference) completely different 'Fulton' tartan is not known.
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
- 1993 (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: 5097
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3952
Thread count
DB/12 K20 R8 G8 R12 G48 R24 K4 R/12
One full sett is 272 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s9/db3k5r2g2r3g12r6k1r3~x4/