London '88
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 GBBKBGBWBRBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2193
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1988 — London '88 (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in August 1988 by Malcom Campbell of Edinburgh Woollen Mill, who donated the sample to the Scottish Tartans Society archive, This tartan was to celebrate Edinburghs Woollen Mills participation in the Lord Mayor's Show 12th November 1988. The colours represent the predominant colours in the arms of Christopher Collett, Lord Mayor of London, also Gold overchecks representing the Mayorial chain of office, and Red and White for the cross on the arms of the City of London. Patented Design. - undated — London'88 (weddslist, record)
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: 2193
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1132
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1132
Thread count
Y/8 DB110 N8 K8 DB4 Y4 DB4 W10 DB6 R4 N4 K/4
One full sett is 336 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/y4db55n4k4db2y2db2w5db3r2n2k2~x2/