Italian National
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 GBKGWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1871
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — Italian National (register-of-tartans, record)
Mike Lemetti is a third generation Scottish Italian - his forebears emigrated from Tuscany to Scotland in 1890 - and this tartan was designed to commemorate Scottish/Italian links and is for the use of Scots of Italian extraction. Approved by the Italian Consul in Glasgow. The design includes the colours of the Italian flag, black for the Pretorian Guard, Gold for the Roman Empire - all set against a background of Azzuri blue for the Italian national football team. The green, white, and red reflect the colours in the Italian flag. The tri-colours were adopted in honour of the uniforms worn by the Civic Militia of Milan which were predominantly green with some white. Red parts were added in 1796 when the Militia became the National Guard. The black in the Italian National Tartan reflects the Praetorian Guard. An elite force of palace guards established in the beginning of the Empire period, to guard the person and family of the Emperor. With its unique history, the guard still remains a symbol of strength and power. The gold represents the rich culture of the Roman Empire and the warmth and beauty of the Italian sunshine. These colours rest on a field of azzuro blue. The colour itself is bold and formidable, bringing forth images of the Mediterranean depths. It was selected in honour of the Italian National football team and embodies the love and support the Italian people have for their country. - pre 2004 — Italian National (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Mike Lemetti is a third generation Scottish Italian - his forebears emigrated from Tuscany to Scotland in 1890 - and this tartan was designed to commemorate Scottish/Italian links and is for the use of Scots of Italian extraction. Approved by the Italian Consul in Glasgow. The design includes the colours of the Italian flag, black for the Pretorian Guard, Gold for the Roman Empire - all set against a background of Azzuri blue for the Italian national football team. The green, white, and red reflect the colours in the Italian flag. the tri-colors were adopted in honour of the uniforms worn by the Civic Militia of Milan which were predominantly green with some white. Red parts were added in 1796 when the Militia became the National Guard. The black in the Italian National Tartan reflects the Praetorian Guard. An elite force of palace guards established in the beginning of the Empire period, to guard the person and family of the Emperor. With its unique history, the guard still remains a symbol of strength and power. The gold represents the rich culture of the Roman Empire and the warmth and beauty of the Italian sunshine. These colours rest on a field of azzuro blue. The colour itself is bold and formidable, bringing forth images of the Mediterranean depths. It was selected in honour of the Italian National football team and embodies the love and support the Italian people have for their country. Woven sample.
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
- 2004 (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: 1871
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6315
Thread count
R/6 W4 G10 K70 DB80 DY/6
One full sett is 340 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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.
ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
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340
202
238
238
246
246
244
162
220
258
306
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/dy3db40k35g5w2r3~x2/