Royal Delight

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 BBBBBBBBBBB.

Part of the Royal Delight 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=3600

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/1972 — Royal Delight (register-of-tartans, record)
    Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection.
  • pre 1972 — Royal Delight (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
    Sample in STA Johnston Collection.
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

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DR/6 DP4 DB36 DPi6 DP4 DPi6 DB36 DP6 DPi24 DP24 DPi/6

One full sett is 304 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#180064 #180064oklch(24.2% 0.150 277.1)
DP#4C1864 #4C1864oklch(33.1% 0.131 312.8)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
DP#640064 #640064oklch(35.3% 0.162 328.4)

Sample pattern

DR/6 DP4 DB36 DPi6 DP4 DPi6 DB36 DP6 DPi24 DP24 DPi/6 tartan

ID: /variants/s11/dr3dp2db18dpi3dp2dpi3db18dp3dpi12dp12dpi3x2dp3313312-db2415276-dpi3516327/

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