Spirit of West Lothian
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 BBBBBGWGKWG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3868
Provenance
Earliest known date: July 2007 Designed by Kirsty Anderson of the House of Edgar for the Kilt Centre of Hamilton, but copyright later assigned to West Lothian Council.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/2007 — Spirit of West Lothian (register-of-tartans, record)
The Spirit of West Lothian tartan embraces various elements of West Lothian. The predominant shades of green and coral are inspired by the council's corporate colours while blue, ivory and black are complementary and combine to create a very attractive tartan. The tartan was created to reflect the history and characteristics of the district. The green represents the Bathgate Hills where the Scottish patriot William Wallace lived and fought. The coral shade represents the shale oil bings of the 19th century shale oil industry and is also reminiscent of Linlithgow Palace fountain flowing with wine in celebration of the birth of Mary Queen of Scots. The blue represents the shimmering Linlithgow Loch and reinforces West Lothian's links to the Royal House of Stuart. The black in the tartan represents Westlothiana, or Lizzie for short, the world's oldest known reptile fossil discovered in a quarry near the West Lothian town of Bathgate, which commemorates its own strong links with Marjory, the daughter of King Robert The Bruce, in a colourful annual pageant. With many rich traditions, West Lothian has a proud heritage and much to look forward to in the future. Designed by Kirsty Anderson of the House of Edgar (Macnaughton Holdings Ltd) for the 'Kilt Centre' of Hamilton, but copyright later assigned to West Lothian Council. - July 2007 — Spirit of West Lothian (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
The Spirit of West Lothian tartan embraces various elements of West Lothian. The predominant shades of green and coral are inspired by the council's corporate colours while blue, ivory and black are complementary and combine to create a very attractive tartan. The tartan was created to reflect the history and characteristics of the district. The green represents the Bathgate Hills where the Scottish patriot William Wallace lived and fought. The coral shade represents the shale oil bings of the 19th century shale oil industry and is also reminiscent of Linlithgow Palace fountain flowing with wine in celebration of the birth of Mary Queen of Scots. The blue represents the shimmering Linlithgow Loch and reinforces West Lothian's links to the Royal House of Stuart. The black in the tartan represents Westlothiana, or Lizzie for short, the world's oldest known reptile fossil discovered in a quarry near the West Lothian town of Bathgate, which commemorates its own strong links with Marjory, the daughter of King Robert The Bruce, in a colourful annual pageant. With many rich traditions, West Lothian has a proud heritage and much to look forward to in the future. Designed by Kirsty Anderson of the House of Edgar - Macnaughton Holdings Ltd for the 'Kilt Centre' of Hamilton, but copyright later assigned to West Lothian Council. - July 2007 — Spirit of West Lothian Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 01/07/2007 (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: 3868
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7256
Thread count
DB/96 DP4 DB10 DP4 DB14 G4 W6 G10 K8 W2 G/52
One full sett is 272 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s11/db48dp2db5dp2db7g2w3g5k4w1g26~x2/