Crieff Hydro Hotel
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 BRGBRGRBRGBGRGRB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=805
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1990 — Crieff Hydro Hotel (register-of-tartans, record)
Instigated by Brian Wilton of the Scottish Tartans Authority and designed by Peter MacDonald for Crieff Hydro Hotel. Formed by changing the yellow of the Strathearn to blue (Wilsons' purple). Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection. - pre 1990 — Crieff Hydro Hotel (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Instigated by Brian Wilton and designed by Peter MacDonald for Crieff Hydro Hotel. Formed by changing the yellow of the Strathearn to blue (Wilsons' purple). Sample in STA Dalgety Collection.
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
- 1990 (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: 805
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5166
Thread count
DB/4 R4 G24 DB32 R4 G4 R4 DB32 R24 G4 DB4 G4 R24 G24 R4 DB/4
One full sett is 392 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s16/db1r1g6db8r1g1r1db8r6g1db1g1r6g6r1db1~x4/