Fabric of Scotland (Prickly Thistle), 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 BBBGGGGRGR.
Part of the Fabric of Scotland , The tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11502
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
- 01/10/2015 (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: 11502
Thread count
O/84 Y22 O10 Y8 DG58 DGi38 G48 DPi4 DP16 DPii/46
One full sett is 538 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #003C14 #003C14 | oklch(31.1% 0.089 148.5) |
| DG | #004028 #004028 | oklch(32.8% 0.073 160.8) |
| Y | #767E52 #767E52 | oklch(57.5% 0.064 116.8) |
| G | #5C6428 #5C6428 | oklch(48.3% 0.084 116.0) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| DP | #6C0070 #6C0070 | oklch(37.6% 0.174 326.5) |
| DP | #780078 #780078 | oklch(40.2% 0.185 328.4) |
| DP | #5A008C #5A008C | oklch(37.0% 0.191 306.3) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
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