X Marks the Scot
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 GBBBBBBBBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4790
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/2005 — X Marks the Scot (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Matt Newsome of the Tartans Museum in Franklin, North Carolina for an online kilt-wearer's forum (www.xmarkssthescot.com). Design chosen from a selection by Hank Hannah, owner of the forum. Colours from the website with the prominent white line on blue denoting the St Andrew's Cross of the Scottish Saltire. - 2005 July — X Marks the Scot (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Matt Newsome of the Tartans Museum in Franklin, North Carolina for an online kilt-wearer's forum (www.xmarkssthescot.com). Design chosen from a selection by Hank Hannah, owner of the forum. Colours from the website with the prominent white line on blue denoting the St Andrew's Cross of the Scottish Saltire.
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
- 01/07/2005 (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: 4790
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6679
Thread count
W/12 DB64 N6 DB6 N2 DB6 N4 DBi8 DB2 Y/4
One full sett is 212 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/w6db32n3db3n1db3n2dbi4db1y2x2db1204274-dbi1406275/