Platt
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 GBGGRGBGBRGBGGR.
Part of the Platt tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3346
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1900 — Platt (register-of-tartans, record)
From the Provost Macbean Collection. Scottish Tartans Society notes say 'Appears near the end of the Provost's collection - 'which he placed in the book in the order of receiving them. The patterns at the end of the book are all modern.' (Arthur Peters, librarian at Inverness Public library). Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Scarlett Collection. James Cant MA's (d. 1960) colour strip differs slightly from the woven sample shown here. - pre 1900 — Platt (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
From the Provost Macbean Collection. STS notes say "Appears near the end of the Provost's collection - 'which he placed in the book in the order of receiving them. The patterns at the end of the book are all modern.' (Arthur Peters, librarian at Inverness Public library). Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection. James Cant MA's (d1960) colour strip differs slightly from the woven sample shown here.
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
- 1900 (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: 3346
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 749
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 749
Thread count
G/32 DB12 Y4 G24 R4 G28 DB28 Y2 DB24 R4 G12 DB48 G12 Y4 R/4
One full sett is 448 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/s15/g16db6y2g12r2g14db14y1db12r2g6db24g6y2r2~x2/