Scottish Gas
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 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3719
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1985 — Scottish Gas (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on the Black Watch sett and designed on the Scotweave computer at the Scottish College of Textiles, Galashiels in 1985. Woven by D C Dalgliesh. Adopted by Scottish Gas and originally used for skirts, ties etc for the staff of Scottish Gas showrooms. Permission required from Scottish Gas to reveal thread count. - 1985 — Scottish Gas (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
A Black Watch sett. Named after William Murdoch founder of Scottish Gas. The following note from D C Stewart's Nomindex: "Designed on the Scotweave computer at the Scottish College of Textiles, Galashiels circa 1985. Woven by D C Dalgliesh. If the tartan was eventually rejected by Scottish Gas it is understood that it would be named William Murdoch. The sett was adopted by Scottish Gas and is currently (1986/7) in use as skirts, ties etc by the staff of Scottish Gas showrooms." March 2005. Count altered by BW to agree with the original STS record. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection labelled British Gas. This design is actually Forbes with some colour changes.
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
- 1985 (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: 3719
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 29
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 29
Thread count
Ti/22 DB4 Ti8 DB4 Ti8 DB22 T22 DB4 Tii8 DB4 T22 DB22 Ti22 DB4 Ti/8
One full sett is 338 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #2888C4 #2888C4 | oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5) |
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
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/ti11db2ti4db2ti4db11t11db2tii4db2t11db11ti11db2ti4x2ti2405244-tii2503227/