Hopetoun
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 GBGKGKGKGKG.
Part of the Hopetoun 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=1761
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1984 — Hopetoun (register-of-tartans, record)
Hopetoun House Preservation Trust. Based on Marquess of Linlithgow's family colours of gold and blue. Possibly designed by the Scottish Tartans Society. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection and in Scottish Tartans Authority Dalgety Collection. - February 1984 — Hopetoun (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Hopetoun House Preservation Trust. Based on Marquess of Linlithgow's family colours of gold and blue. Possibly designed by the Scottish Tartans Society. Its use is purely for the family and Hopetoun House Staff. (checked Nov. 2007 by BW) Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. Sample in STA Dalgety 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
- 1984 (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: 1761
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 722
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 722
Thread count
G/52 K8 G8 K44 Y4 K8 Y4 K44 G8 B4 G/44
One full sett is 360 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/g13k2g2k11y1k2y1k11g2b1g11~x4/