North Sea Commission
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 GBWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3154
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/06/2006 — North Sea Commission (register-of-tartans, record)
The North Sea Commission was founded in 1989 to facilitate and enhance partnerships between regions which manage the challenges and opportunities presented by the North Sea. Furthermore, to promote the North Sea Basin as a major economic entity within Europe, by encouraging joint development initiatives and political lobbying at European Union level. The tartan was devloped in May 2006 and was a collaboration between the Knockando Mill Co, (design, sett, colouring) and Johnstons of Elgin who wove it. The colouring uses the three colours of the Commission’s marque – dark blue, mid blue, gold. - 2006 June — North Sea Commission (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
The North Sea Commission was founded in 1989 to facilitate and enhance partnerships between regions which manage the challenges and opportunities presented by the North Sea. Furthermore, to promote the North Sea Basin as a major economic entity within Europe, by encouraging joint development initiatives and political lobbying at European Union level. The tartan was devloped in May 2006 and was a collaboration between the Knockando Mill Co, (design, sett, colouring) and Johnstons of Elgin who wove it. The colouring uses the three colours of the Commission's marque - dark blue, mid blue, gold.
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
- 01/06/2006 (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: 3154
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6938
Thread count
LB/36 DT12 LB4 DT48 Y/4
One full sett is 168 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| 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/s5/lb9dt3lb1dt12y1~x4/