Thistle Dubh
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 WBWBGBGBGBKBWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4103
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Thistle Dubh (register-of-tartans, record)
This was designed for the Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts kilthire business. The amusing derivation of the name explains that when shown the design someone said 'This'll do' which became Thistle Dubh. - pre 2004 — Thistle Dubh (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
This was designed for the Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts kilthire business. The amusing derivation of the name explains that when shown the design someone said 'This'll do' which became Thistle Dubh! - pre 2004 — Midnight Thistle (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts for their kilthire business. Shade variation of Thistle Dubh. Note - this is not the sett - it's to come. - undated — Midnight Thistle (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts for their kilt-hire business. Shade variation of Thistle Dubh.
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
- 2002 (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: 5539
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7499
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2941
Thread count
W/10 N6 W6 N40 K30 N20 G4 N4 G6 N4 G6 N12 LP6 N8 LP/10
One full sett is 324 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LP | #E4A6DB #E4A6DB | oklch(80.0% 0.100 331.6) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/w5n3w3n20k15n10g2n2g3n2g3n6lp3n4lp5~x2/