Rust (Personal)
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 BRKGYGKBWBKR.
Part of the Rust tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3620
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1981 — Rust (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Gordon Rust, then resident in Salalah, Sultinate of Oman, as a tartan for the Rust family. Registered with the Scottish Tartans Society. This tartan was woven by Peter MacDonald for a gentleman called Rust who lived in California, using azure blue rather than the royal blue of the original design. - 1984 — Rust (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
A tartan for all of the name this was originally called Rust of Salalah since the designer - Gordon Rust - was, at the time, living in Salalah, Sultanate of Oman. It was woven by D C Dalgliesh in 1986 and then later by Peter MacDonald for someone named Rust from California for whom a kilt was made by Bob Martin. In that version a blue line was changed to azure. The design was said by Gordon Rust to be based on that of the common kilt. Correct thread count given by GR in August 2008. Woven samples of both versions in the STA archives.
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
- 1981 (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: 3620
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 555
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 555
Thread count
R/6 K4 DP24 W4 DP24 K24 G24 LO4 G24 K4 R2 DB/4
One full sett is 286 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s12/r3k2dp12w2dp12k12g12lo2g12k2r1db2~x2/