Queen of the South Football Club
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 RBBBBRWRGBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3428
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1999 — Queen of the South Football Club (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Ronnie Hek of Coldstream for Queen of the South Football Club. - 01/01/1999 — Coldstream (register-of-tartans, record)
Chosen by the people of the small Scottish Borders' town of Coldstream from four designs by Ronnie Hek of Coldstream and accepted by the relevant District Council. Colours may not all be right - obscure references used. - 1999 — Coldstream (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Chosen by the people of the small Scottish Borders' town of Coldstream from four designs by Ronnie Hek of Coldstream and accepted by the relevant District Council. Colours may not all be right - obscure references used.
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
- 1999 (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: 3428
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2650
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2649
Thread count
W/6 DBi2 G36 R6 LB8 R6 DB8 DBi6 DB4 DBi48 Ri/2
One full sett is 256 threads.

Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| R | #C8002C #C8002C | oklch(52.6% 0.212 22.0) |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartan variants
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