Romsdal Tresfjord
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 KBKBK.
Part of the Romsdal Tresfjord tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3545
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Romsdal Tresfjord (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society note says 'tartan for a man's vest' but does not say whether this is from an original specimen or modern one. The note was probably written in the US so, for 'vest' read 'waistcoat'. Source of information noted as Aud Aslaksen, Romsdalsmuseet, Molde . Scottish Tartans Society has one more colour and a count of K4, DR8, K14, R2, K2. The R2 is probably an error and it should be DR. - pre 2002 — Romsdal Tresfjord District (Artefact (tartans-authority, record)
Romsdal is the district on the West Coast of Norway where Scottish soldiers landed in 1612. STS note says 'tartan for a man's vest' but does not say whether this is from an original specimen or modern one. The note was probably written in the US so, for 'vest' read 'waistcoat'. Source of information noted as Aud Aslaksen, Romsdalsmuseet, Molde . STS has one more colour and a count of K4, DR8, K14, R2, K2. The R2 is probably an error and it should be DR.
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
- 2002 (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: 3545
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2088
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2088
Thread count
K/4 DR8 K14 DR2 K/4
One full sett is 56 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s5/k2dr4k7dr1k2~x2/