Coronation Commemorative 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 BWRBRBW.
Part of the Coronation tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=661
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1936 Designed to commemorate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1936. There is another count estimated from a drawing by Coulson Bonner which is now in the possession of the Scottish Tartan Society. B22 W2 R24 B12 R2 B12 W2
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1936 — Coronation Commemorative Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Coronation (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed to commemorate the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1936. There is another count estimated from a drawing by Coulson Bonner which is now in the possession of the Scottish Tartan Society. B22 W2 R24 B12 R2 B12 W2 MacGregor-Hastie collection is found in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — Coronation (weddslist, record)
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
- 1936 (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
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 770
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 661
Thread count
DB/14 W2 R14 DB8 R4 DB8 W/4
One full sett is 90 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.45 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s7/db7w1r7db4r2db4w2~x2/