Regent
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 BKGRGKG.
Part of the Regent tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3490
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — Regent (register-of-tartans, record)
As Jamie Scarlett MBE pointed out in 1997, Wilsons of Bannockburn were not above recycling tartans that had outlived their useful life or cannibalising ones that were still in use. This popular fashion tartan seems to have been produced by removing the black lines from the blue of the Grant Hunting (#311, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). Ignore the fact that one is blue and the other purple. Wilson's purple was what we would now call dark blue. Same sett as MacLaren (#342, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). - 1819 — Regent (tartans-authority, record)
As Jamie Scarlett MBE pointed out in 1997, Wilsons of Bannockburn were not above recycling tartans that had outlived their useful life or cannibalising ones that were still in use. This popular fashion tartan seems to have been produced by removing the black lines from the blue of the Grant Hunting (#311). Ignore the fact that one is blue and the other purple. Wilson's purple was what we would now call dark blue. Same sett as MacLaren (#342)
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
- 1819 (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: 3490
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 341
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 341
Thread count
DP/36 K14 G10 R8 G14 K2 DY/4
One full sett is 136 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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) |
| 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/s7/dp18k7g5r4g7k1dy2~x2/