Scandinavian
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 GKBGBKGKGKRWRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3663
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/04/2004 — Scandinavian (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Finn Stavnsbo for all Scandinavians of Scottish descent, many of whom are descended from Scottish Commanders like Munro and Mackay - two well-known mercenaries who fought for King Christian of Denmark & Norway and King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden & Finland. Both were double kingdoms at the time in question 1626-1633. The colours represent the modern flags of these countries plus black for sorrow and green for the battlefields of Denmark and Germany. The sett produces alternating Danish and Swedish squares. - Apr 2004 — Scandinavian (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Finn C.A. Stavnsbo for all Scandinavians of Scottish descent, many of whom are descended from Scottish Soldiers who fought under Commanders like Munro and Mackay - ...."- two well known mercenaries who fought for King Christian of Denmark & Norway and King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden & Finland. Both were double kingdoms at the time in question 1626 - 1633. The colours represent the modern flags of these countries plus black for sorrow and green for the battlefields of Denmark and Germany. The sett produces alternating Danish and Swedish squares. Woven sample.
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
- 01/04/2004 (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: 3663
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6165
Thread count
G/20 K12 T20 Y8 T20 K6 G20 K6 G20 K6 R20 W8 R20 K/12
One full sett is 364 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s14/g10k6t10y4t10k3g10k3g10k3r10w4r10k6~x2/