Johore
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 BWGBYBGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1902
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1880 — Johore (register-of-tartans, record)
From Thomas. Gordon & Sons, Glasgow and presented to the Sultan of Jahore by Queen Victoria during his visit to Balmoral circa 1880. Confusion is sometimes caused by the mis-spelling 'Jahore' with an 'a'. Johor is the Malay spelling, Johore is the English. - 1880 — Johore (District) (tartans-authority, record)
From Thomas. Gordon & Sons, Glasgow and presented to the Sultan of Johor(e) by Queen Victoria during his visit to Balmoral circa 1880. Ibrahim H.H. Tunku Abubeker Bin. GCMG. KCSI. Sultan of 'JOHORE' (1833 - 1895) was the grandson of the Malayan Prince who ceded Singapore to Sir Stamford Raffles. Was western educated and a great friend of Queen Victoria who created him Emperor of Johor. He died on July 1895 at Bailey's Hotel, London and was taken back to Johor and laid to rest at the royal mausoleum named Makam Mahmoodiah. An 1891 Vanity Fair cartoon shows the Sultan with a piece of predominantly yellow tartan which places a question mark over the accuracy of this entry which is still being sporadically researched.
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
- 1880 (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: 1902
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1309
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1309
Thread count
N/114 W10 G40 N10 LO20 N10 G40 W/10
One full sett is 384 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
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/n57w5g20n5lo10~x2/