Japan–Scotland Society, The
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 BRGRBWBWW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10347
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/04/2005 — Japan–Scotland Society, The (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of The Japan-Scotland Society (JSS). Colours: the red is for the Rising Sun of Japan; blue for the flag of St Andrew; and purple for Scottish heather and the colour representing nobility to the Japanese; the green represents the expanses of forest typical in both Japan and Scotland. - April 2005 — Japan-Scotland Society (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of The Japan-Scotland Society (JSS). Colours: the red is for the Rising Sun of Japan; blue for the flag of St Andrew; and purple for Scottish heather and the colour representing nobility to the Japanese; the green represents the expanses of forest typical in both Japan and Scotland. To be worn by members of JSS but othgers may apply to JSS for prmission to waer or use the 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
- 01/04/2005 (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: 10347
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10347
Thread count
DP/24 R2 G8 R4 DP20 LB40 DB6 LB18 W/2
One full sett is 222 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/s9/dp12r1g4r2dp10lb20db3lb9w1~x2/