Merchiston Castle School
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 KBKBKBKBKBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2934
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1988 — Merchiston Castle School (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on the Napier tartan as the school was founded in the 1830s in the original home of Napier of Merchiston, now part of Napier college. The school band for many years used the Napier tartan. The new design whilst retaining the sett of the Napier tartan changes the white to royal blue, the royal blue to navy, and the white line to scarlet to reflect the school colours. - 1988 — Merchiston Castle (School) (tartans-authority, record)
In the mid 1980s the school felt that it needed a more adaptable tartan than the variation on Napier worn by the pipe band. This new one was designed by Douglas Kinloch Anderson. Later Colin Hutcheson advised them on a new pipe band tartan and Cameron Erracht was chosen with line pleating used. Blues lightened to show sett.
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
- 1988 (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: 2934
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1051
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1051
Thread count
K/16 DB8 K6 DB8 K6 DB20 K6 DB6 K14 T41 R/4
One full sett is 250 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/k16db8k6db8k6db20k6db6k14t41r4/