Scotland Forever (Fashion)

March 18, 2023 ⌗ Edit this in the TTD

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 BKBKBKBGBYB.

Part of the Scotland Forever tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=6038

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: March 2003 (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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 6038

Thread count

DB/12 K6 DT38 K12 DT8 K6 DP24 DG8 DP24 LR4 DB/10

One full sett is 282 threads.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
DB	`#082077` #082077	oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DT	`#14283C` #14283C	oklch(27.1% 0.046 249.9)
DG	`#053819` #053819	oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
K	`#101010` #101010	oklch(17.3% 0.000 89.9)
DP	`#4B0B4F` #4B0B4F	oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
LR	`#FF9C97` #FF9C97	oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2)

Sample pattern

DB/12 K6 DT38 K12 DT8 K6 DP24 DG8 DP24 LR4 DB/10 tartan

Compared to the master

This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.

Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 7.67 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).

this sett (top) woven against the master sett (bottom) — One weave of this sett against the master sett ★, split on the diagonal: a shared proportion runs seamlessly across it with only the shades shifting; a different proportion breaks on it.

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