Scotland's People
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 GRGRKRKRKRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3685
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/11/2003 — Scotland's People (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for Trevor and Faye Yerbury and based on the Sutherland tartan as Trevor's grandmother was a Sutherland. Produced for a photographic exhibition entitled Scotland's People in which it was used to upholster a sofa which appeared in every photograph in the collection. Woven sample in the Scottish Tartans Authority's Collection. - Feb 2004 — Scotland's People (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Produced for Trevor and Faye Yerbury and based on the Sutherland taran (Trevor's Grandmother was a Sutherland). Produced for a photogrpahic exhibition entitled Scotland's people and will be used to upholster a sofa which will app[ear in every photogrpah in the collection. Sample in STA 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
- 01/11/2003 (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: 3685
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6122
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2979
Thread count
R/14 Y6 R54 K28 O10 K6 O10 K6 O16 G6 O8 G/8
One full sett is 322 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s12/r7y3r27k14o5k3o5k3o8g3o4g4~x2/