Lee Cox (Personal)
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 RGKWKWGWKWKWGBRWW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10205
Provenance
Earliest known date: 15th Dec. 2009 This tartan combines the basic pattern of the Bell tartan (the designer's wife's maiden name) and the Marshall tartan (the designer's mother's tartan) with an additional pattern representing the designer (red) and his wife (blue), their marriage (white) surrounded by purple happiness. Developed for weaving by House of Tartan
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 15th Dec. 2009 — Lee Cox (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan combines the basic pattern of the Bell tartan (the designer's wife's maiden name) and the Marshall tartan (the designer's mother's tartan) with an additional pattern representing the designer (red) and his wife (blue), their marriage (white) surrounded by purple happiness. Developed for weaving by House of Tartan - undated — Lee Cox Personal Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 15th Dec. 2009 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 10205
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10205
Thread count
R/6 G4 K14 LB6 K6 LB6 G28 LB6 K6 LB6 K6 LB6 G20 DP12 R4 W4 LB/6
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s17/r3g2k7lb3k3lb3g14lb3k3lb3k3lb3g10dp6r2w2lb3~x2/