Franconian
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 BBGBGBGBGBRBGBGBGBGBGBBBGRGWGRGB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 32 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1244
Provenance
Earliest known date: Aug 1997 August 1997. Designed by (or for?) the Highland Circle - a group of Malt Whisky drinkers in Franconia, Germany. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection + Lochcarron swatch. STS notes say designed by members of the Highland Circle and produced by Hugh MacPherson of Edinburgh. Blue & green lightened to show sett.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/1997 — Franconian (register-of-tartans, record)
August 1997. Designed by (or for?) the Highland Circle - a group of Malt Whisky drinkers in Franconia, Germany. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection and Lochcarron swatch. Scottish Tartans Society notes say designed by members of the Highland Circle and produced by Hugh MacPherson of Edinburgh. Blue & green lightened to show sett. - Aug 1997 — Franconian (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. August 1997. Designed by (or for?) the Highland Circle - a group of Malt Whisky drinkers in Franconia, Germany. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection + Lochcarron swatch. STS notes say designed by members of the Highland Circle and produced by Hugh MacPherson of Edinburgh. Blue & green lightened to show sett. - Aug 1997 — Franconian District Ger Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 01/08/1997 (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: 1244
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2305
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2305
Thread count
DB/44 G14 R10 G8 W10 G8 R10 G10 DB44 T10 DB8 G8 DB8 G44 DB8 G8 DB8 G8 DB44 Y10 DB10 R10 DB44 G8 DB8 G8 DB8 G44 DB8 G8 DB8 T/10
One full sett is 938 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s32/db22g7r5g4w5g4r5g5db22t5db4g4db4g22db4g4db4g4db22y5db5r5db22g4db4g4db4g22db4g4db4t5~x2/