Spey
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 BBRBBBRBBBRBBW.
Part of the Spey tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11653
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
- 07/08/2016 (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: 11653
Thread count
DB/8 N8 R8 N8 DB8 N8 R8 N8 DB8 N8 R8 T8 N8 LB/8
One full sett is 208 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| DB | #141E46 #141E46 | oklch(25.2% 0.076 269.7) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
ID: /variants/s14/db1n1r1n1db1n1r1n1db1n1r1t1n1lb1x8db2508270-t6107234/