Roman Family Tribute (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 BGBKBGWGBGWKGB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10740
Provenance
Earliest known date: 20 November 2012 This tartan was designed by Blair Urquhart of House of Tartans, Scotland, for Kevin Roman, to honour family members. The tartan draws on three Scots forebears for its inspiration: his great grandmother, a MacKenzie; his grandmother, a Turnbull; and his mother, a Gill. The tartan is also a tribute to the memory of Kevin Roman's grandfather, Octavious Gill, who died fighting in the First World War, and his father, Joseph Roman, who fought in the desert in the Second World War, and then in Suez.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 15/10/2012 — Roman Family Tribute (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed by Blair Urquhart of House of Tartans, Scotland, for Kevin Roman, to honour family members. The tartan draws on three Scots forebears for its inspiration: his great grandmother, a MacKenzie; his grandmother, a Turnbull; and his mother, a Gill. The tartan is also a tribute to the memory of Kevin Roman's grandfather, Octavious Gill, who died fighting in the First World War, and his father, Joseph Roman, who fought in the desert in the Second World War, and then in Suez. - 20 November 2012 — Roman Family Tribute (Personal) Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 15/10/2012 (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: 10740
Thread count
DR/54 G40 K14 W6 DY6 DR4 DY6 W6 DY12 DP12 K4 DR6 DY8 DP/6
One full sett is 308 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/s14/dr27g20k7w3dy3dr2dy3w3dy6dp6k2dr3dy4dp3~x2/