Scottish Lion (Corporate)
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 BBWBRBGRGB.
Part of the Scottish Lion tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3184
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1999 — Scottish Lion (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Arthur Mackie of Strathmore Woollen Co. to celebrate the long working relationship with the Scottish Lion Import Shop and Mail Order Catalogue. Restricted to the Scottish Lion Shop. - undated — Scottish Lion (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Arthur Mackie of Strathmore Woollen Co. to celebrate the long working relationship with the Scottish Lion Import Shop and Mail Order Catalogue. Personal to the Scottish Lion Shop.
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
- 1999 (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: 5033
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3184
Thread count
DR/8 DB32 LB4 DB32 R8 DP14 DG42 R6 DG8 DO/6
One full sett is 306 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #680028 #680028 | oklch(33.1% 0.133 8.3) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| R | #880000 #880000 | oklch(39.4% 0.162 29.2) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/dr4db16lb2db16r4dp7dg21r3dg4do3x2dr1305012-r1606028/