Scania 1658
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 GRGR.
Part of the Scania 1658 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=10978
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 19/11/2013 — Scania 1658 (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan commemorates the year 1658 when the country of Scania (Skåne), part of Denmark for 700 years, became part of Sweden. Scania included the following ten cities: Falsterbo, Helsingborg, Landskrona, Kristianstad, Lund, Malmo, Simrishamn Skanörvägen, Ystad and Ängelholm. This tartan is for Scania people’s Danish ancestors and their children. It can be worn by anyone who lives in Scania or has relatives from the country. The tartan uses the red and yellow from the flag of Scania. - 2014 — Scania 1658 (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan commemorates the year 1658 when the country of Scania (Sk?ne), part of Denmark for 700 years, became part of Sweden. This tartan is intended for those in Scania who have Danish ancestors and their children. The tartan uses the red and yellow from the Scania flag.
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
- 19/11/2013 (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: 10978
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10978
Thread count
R/120 Y14 R10 Y/4
One full sett is 172 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s4/r60y7r5y2~x2/