Espana
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 GRWKGRGRGRGRGKWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1130
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Espana (register-of-tartans, record)
Originally designed for Spanish competition dancers to wear as arisaids with their ballroom gowns as a means of identification in international competitions. Initially named Iberia tartan but it was pointed out this would include Portugal and within weeks it took the name 'Tartan Espana'. The design by 'el escoces de roses' (Viv Sharp) 28 may 1997 was not copyrighted and was seized on as a tourist souvenir for ladies' scarves and bikini swimwear. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. - 1997 — Espana (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Originally designed for Spanish competition dancers to wear as arisaids with their ballroom gowns as a means of identification in international competitions.Initially named Iberia tartan but it was pointed out this would include Portugal and within weeks it took the name 'Tartan Espana. The design by "el escoces de roses" (Viv Sharp) 28 may 1997 was not copyrighted and was seized on as a tourist souvenir for ladies' scarves and bikini swimwear. Sample in STA's Johnston 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
- 1997 (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: 1130
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4824
Thread count
W/68 T10 W6 K2 Y4 R4 Y4 R4 Y4 R4 Y4 R4 Y4 K2 W6 R8 Y/16
One full sett is 224 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s17/w34t5w3k1y2r2y2r2y2r2y2r2y2k1w3r4y8~x2/