Butler
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 BRBRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=458
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2000 — Butler (register-of-tartans, record)
One of a series of Irish name tartans designed by Scotch Corner of Gateshead, England. - 2000 — Butler (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Scotch Corner (a company in Gateshead, England) have produced various Irish surname tartans over the years but have never advised or consulted the Scottish Tartans Authority or offered any historical evidence to their designs. Since there is no known evidence of any Irish clan/family tartans having ever existed, these should not be regarded as genuine clan/family tartans but merely fashion designs given an Irish surname. However . . . . it may be considered that this is how many of Scotland's clan tartans originally came into being so perhaps in a hundred years or so, today's inventions will be regarded as tomorrow's genuine Irish clan/family tartans.
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
- 2000 (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: 458
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4058
Thread count
DB/96 R36 DB12 R26 Y8 R/28
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s6/db48r18db6r13y4r14~x2/