Royal and Ancient, The
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 BGBGBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3584
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1993 — Royal and Ancient, The (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for the famous Royal and Ancient Golf Club, St Andrews, and marketed to help raise funds to restore the Club's historic buildings. Accredited by the Scottish Tartans Society in 1993. - 1993 — Royal & Ancient (Sports) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh for the famous Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. Produced in 1993 to help with fund-raising for the restoration of the Club's historic buildings. Similar to St Andrews tartan but includes more green. Was noted as being from the late Jack Dalgety of Forfar and "Restricted, until further notice" - 5 January 1995. Some similarity to #2398 St Andrews International. Not known if this was ever taken to the weaving stage. Extremely close to #2332 - also designed by Kinloch Anderson. 2626 now also lays claim to being called (by use and wont) Royal & Ancient.
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
- 1993 (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: 3584
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2193
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2193
Thread count
G/98 DB32 DY6 DB4 DY4 DB/12
One full sett is 202 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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.
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/g49db16dy3db2dy2db6~x2/