Stewart/Stuart of Rothesay (Sobieski)
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 GRBRKRGRKRW.
Part of the Stewart of Rothesay 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=3954
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1829 — Stewart/Stuart of Rothesay (Sobieski) (register-of-tartans, record)
From a drawing by Charles Allen (Sobieski) in the Dick Lauder transcript of the Cromarty Mss in the Royal Library, Windsor. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Scarlett Collection. See Vestiarium Scoticum entry. (1829-1842) Named `Duke of Rothesay' in a drawing by Charles Sobieski (Allen) in the Dick Lauder transcript in the Royal Library in Windsor. - 1829 — Stewart of Rothesay - 1829 (C Mss) (tartans-authority, record)
From a drawing by Charles Allen (Sobieski) in the Dick Lauder transcript of the Cromarty Mss in the Royal Library, Windsor. Woven sample.
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
- 1829 (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: 3954
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 847
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 847
Thread count
DG/4 R52 DB8 R4 K8 R4 DG16 R8 K2 R2 W/4
One full sett is 216 threads.

Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/dg2r26db4r2k4r2dg8r4k1r1w2~x2/