Prince of Wales (Fashion)
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 GRGRGRGWGW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3306
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1978 — Prince of Wales (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
From Lochcarron. Also produced by Ingles Buchan (Textiles). same as Duke of Rothesay, Hunting. James Cant note for the Prince of Wales states" This tartan, along with the red form, was issued by the Vyella Co. It was originally meant for the Rothesay (see #1533) but the division showing the single white line was omitted by mistake. Instead of withdrawing the material, the pattern was given the name 'Prince of Wales'". - 01/01/1998 — Prince of Wales (register-of-tartans, record)
From Lochcarron. Also produced by Ingles Buchan (Textiles). same as Duke of Rothesay, Hunting. James Cant note for the Prince of Wales states'. This tartan, along with the red form, was issued by the Vyella Co. It was originally meant for the Rothesay (see #1533, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) but the division showing the single white line was omitted by mistake. Instead of withdrawing the material, the pattern was given the name 'Prince of Wales''.
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
- 1978 (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: 3396
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3306
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2715
Thread count
DG/12 R24 DG8 R4 DG8 R4 DG64 W4 DG8 W/12
One full sett is 272 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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/s10/dg3r6dg2r1dg2r1dg16w1dg2w3~x4/