Prince George (Royal)
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 GWGWGWGWGRW.
Part of the Prince George 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=942
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 The warmth and glow of the fertile soil, The green field and tree, The yellow and the brown of Autumn, The white of surf or a summer snow, Rust, green, yellow and white, Yes! That's our Island Tartan.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1918 — Prince George (Royal) (tartans-authority, record)
No details known. A Prince George tartan was listed in the 1930 publication 'The Land of the Gael' by a John Ross FSA. Also appears in a large book (Page 91) of almost 400 hand-painted warp strips by James Cant (died 1960) and presented to Jack Dalgety of Forfar (Alex Dalgety & Son). 11th March 2015. Burberry Catalogue produced during WWI by John Ross lists the Prince George as a Royal Tartan. - pre 2003 — Prince George Royal Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Prince George (weddslist, record)
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
- pre 1918 (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): 942
Thread count
G/12 W8 G6 W8 G4 W14 G4 W4 G10 R30 W/4
One full sett is 192 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
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 0.15 — 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
master sett ★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/g6w4g3w4g2w7g2w2g5r15w2~x2/