Scottish Watch
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 BGYG.
Part of the Scottish Watch tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3749
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1932 — Scottish Watch (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for those without a tartan involved with a Society. Founded by Lt.Col Ritchie of Glenborrowdale Castle to promote Scottish culture - circa 1932 — Scottish Watch (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed for those without a tartan involved with a Society founded by Lt.Col Ritchie of Glenborrowdale Castle to promote Scottish culture. Possibly also called Scotland's Youth Association - source: large scrapbook donated to STA in 2009. Late owner was Deputy Chief 1939 - 42.Owner Woven sample.
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
- 1932 (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: 3749
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1561
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1561
Thread count
DR/208 DG78 LO8 DG/78
One full sett is 458 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
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/s3/dr104dg39lo4~x2/