Old Brigade
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 BKRBKG.
Part of the Old Brigade tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10718
Provenance
Earliest known date: 12/10/12 This tartan was designed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the formation of the Old Brigade an informal fraternal society dedicated to good fellowship, formed in 1987. The colours relate to the regiment in which the founding members of the society were serving at the time, with the addition of a gold stripe for excellence.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 08/10/2012 — Old Brigade (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the formation of the Old Brigade an informal fraternal society dedicated to good fellowship, formed in 1987. The colours relate to the regiment in which the founding members of the society were serving at the time, with the addition of a gold stripe for excellence. - undated — Old Brigade Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 08/10/2012 (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: 10718
Thread count
DB/36 K36 R12 DB36 K36 Y/4
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/db9k9r3db9k9y1~x4/