Palatine Union (Personal)
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 BKBKBKWWRWWKBKBKBKWWRWWKBKBKBKWWRWWKBKBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 40 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3285
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — Palatine Union (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed as a unique tartan for the wedding of Traepischke Graves (Trapper Graves) and Steve Lalor in Seattle. Palatine is an old Scottish name and also a district in Seattle. - 2004 — Palatine Union (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Designed as a unique tartan for the wedding of Traepischke Graves (Trapper Graves) and Steve Lalor in Seattle. Palatine is an old Scottish name and also a district in Seattle.
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
- 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: 3285
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6802
Thread count
DB/26 K6 DB6 K6 DB6 K20 LB20 W8 R8 W8 LB20 K20 DB28 K6 DB6 K6 DB28 K20 LB16 W6 R6 W6 LB16 K20 DB26 K6 DB6 K6 DB26 K20 LB20 W8 R8 W8 LB20 K20 DB6 K6 DB6 K/6
One full sett is 1000 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
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/s40/db13k3db3k3db3k10lb10w4r4w4lb10k10db14k3db3k3db14k10lb8w3r3w3lb8k10db13k3db3k3db13k10lb10w4r4w4lb10k10db3k3db3k3~x2/