Mars (Personal)
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 BGBKGKBKGBW.
Part of the Mars 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=3817
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2002 — Mars (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Based on the Hay tartan, designed by Major George Mars of Southampton. Black represents his and his family's service with the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (1935 -47); royal blue represents service to the Royal Family in the House of Holyrood Palace (1920-2002) plus service in other voluntary sectors of the military. The yellow celebrates the Golden Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II. - undated — Mars (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on the Hay tartan, designed by Major George Mars of Southampton. Black represents his and his family's service with the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders (1935 -47); royal blue represents service to the Royal Family in the House of Holyrood Palace (1920-2002) plus service in other voluntary sectors of the military. The yellow celebrates the Golden Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II.
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
- 2002 (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 Register of Tartans: 5416
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3817
Thread count
DR/32 G32 DR16 K16 Y6 K6 DB6 K6 Y6 DR28 W/6
One full sett is 282 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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) |
| 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/s11/dr16g16dr8k8y3k3db3k3y3dr14w3~x2/