Fox, Red
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 RBRBRBRGRGRGRGRWRBRBRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 23 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1241
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/2004 — Fox, Red (register-of-tartans, record)
An asymmetric design from J K MacArthur Fox of Bolton for all of the name Fox or those whose names incorporate 'Fox'. The light grey line is deliberate. - July 2004 — Fox, Red (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. An asymmetric design from J K MacArthur Fox of Bolton for all of the name Fox or those whose names incorporate 'Fox'. The light grey line is deliberate. A second woven sample submitted in darker shades had a different count: . . . .R8 B10 R4 B8 R4 B18 R38 Y & ln6 R38 G20 R14 G28
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
- 01/07/2004 (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: 1241
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6312
Thread count
R/14 DB12 R6 DB8 R6 DB22 R36 LB6 R36 G30 R14 G30 R14 G20 R36 Y6 R36 DB22 R6 DB8 R6 DB12 R/14
One full sett is 772 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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/s23/r7db6r3db4r3db11r18y3r18g10r7g15r7g15r18lb3r18db11r3db4r3db6r7~x2/