Ross, David
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 GBRRGRRBRRGRR.
Part of the Ross, David tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3565
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/06/2003 — Ross, David (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed and hand woven by Chris MacLeod, curator of the Weaver's Cottage, Kilbarchan for David Ross to wear on his proposed 2005 walk from Robroyston to London in remembrance of William Wallace. Madder threads equal 700 (sic) - 0ne for each year since his death. Grey - symbolising steel (determination). 48 threads - age of David Ross. Green - hope and the future - age of David Ross's child. Rust - iron in water of Bore Well, Elderslie (local well once used by weaver's family). Elder (Anc Azure at the moment) - Elderslie being birthplace of the weaver. 'Not just a plaid, but a story in cloth. This is her tribute to those who have given all they could for something that they truly believed in.' - June 2003 — Ross, David (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed and hand woven by Chris MacLeod curator of the Weaver's Cottage, Kilbarchan for David Ross to wear on his proposed 2005 walk from Robroyston to London in remembrance of William Wallace. Madder threads equal 700 (sic) - 0ne for each year since his death. Grey - symbolising steel (determination). 48 threads - age of David Ross. Green - hope and the future - age of David Ross's child. Rust - iron in water of Bore Well, Elderslie (local well once used by weaver's family). Elder (Anc Azure at the moment) - Elderslie being birthplace of the weaver. "Not just a plaid, but a story in cloth. This is her tribute to those who have given all they could for something that they truly believed in."
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
- 01/06/2003 (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: 3565
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6103
Thread count
O/60 R8 Y4 R8 O60 N8 O60 R8 Y4 R8 O60 N24 G/16
One full sett is 580 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
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
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