Fiddes (Artefact)
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 BGBRBRBRBRG.
Part of the Fiddes tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1177
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1972 — Fiddes (Artefact) (register-of-tartans, record)
From Scottish Tartan Society records. Said to be in the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow. See Fiddes file Scottish Tartans Society. - pre 2002 — Fiddes - 1950 (Artefact) (tartans-authority, record)
From STS records. Said to be in the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow. Same setting, slightly different proportions, of #122. Given a c1950 date until these are sorted out. PEM - undated — Fiddes (weddslist, record)
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
- 1972 (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: 1177
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 123
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 123
Thread count
DB/36 G10 DB12 R50 DB12 R10 DB10 R12 DB36 R24 G/32
One full sett is 420 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/s11/db18g5db6r25db6r5db5r6db18r12g16~x2/