Scotland the Brave
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 BWBRKGRGBGBGRGKRBW.
Part of the Scotland the Brave tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3679
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
- 1999 (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: 3679
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2563
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2563
Thread count
DB/12 W2 DB80 O2 K24 DG24 O12 DG4 DP4 DG8 DP4 DG4 O12 DG24 K24 O2 DB80 W/2
One full sett is 634 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #285800 #285800 | oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| 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/s10/db6w1db40o1k12dg12o6dg2dp2dg4x2db1204274-dg1605139/