Round Table of Britain and Ire Corporate Tartan
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 BGBBBGBBBG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2365
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1997 Designed by Polly Wittering of House of Edgar in June 1997 for the Round Table of Britain and Ireland. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. For this graphic medium red, green and blue used in place of called-for dark versions of each.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1997 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DB/94 DG28 DP10 DO4 DR6 DG14 DR6 DO4 DP10 DG/28
One full sett is 286 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| DP | #440044 #440044 | oklch(27.1% 0.125 328.4) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #285800 #285800 | oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8) |
| DP | #780078 #780078 | oklch(40.2% 0.185 328.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s6/db47dg14dp5do2dr3dg7x2db1204274-dg1605139-dp1105325/