Scottish Thistle

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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 BKBKKBBBWB.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3746

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)

01/02/2007 — Scottish Thistle (register-of-tartans, record)
A corporate tartan for David Divine of DA Formal Wear.
February 2007 — Scottish Thistle (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
A corporate tartan for Daviid Divine of DA Formal Wear. Designed by Kirsty Anderson of House of Edgar.

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: 01/02/2007 (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: 3746
Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7098

Thread count

DB/4 Ki6 DB66 K22 Ki6 DB6 DP30 DB8 LB2 DB/4

One full sett is 300 threads.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
LB	`#B5BBDE` #B5BBDE	oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DB	`#003C64` #003C64	oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0)
DP	`#4B0B4F` #4B0B4F	oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
K	`#000000` #000000	oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
K	`#080020` #080020	oklch(12.6% 0.071 289.3)
N	`#636363` #636363	oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

DB/4 Ki6 DB66 K22 Ki6 DB6 DP30 DB8 LB2 DB/4 tartan

Nearest tartan variants

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.

ΔTartan

Threads

Variant

Sett

—

300

390

256

220

Royal Highland Yacht Club

284

272

324

674

256

Incorporation of Weavers (Glasgow)

3.10

236

Spirit of Wales (Fashion)

3.18

292

Java St Andrew Society hunting

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/s10/db2ki3db33k11ki3db3dp15db4lb1db2x2db1404245-ki0503284/