Rotary International
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 BYGRWRG.
Part of the Rotary 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=3570
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1996 March 1996. Check colours. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Woven by Lochcarron of Scotland. STS entry says that it was launched at the Rotary World Convention, Glasgow, 1997 and indicates that it was designed by the Tartans Society (Keith Lumsden) for Rotary International. A counter claim suggests that Geoffrey (Tailor) was the designer. He's certainly the official supplier and can be contacted on 0131 557 0256 - 17.9.04 - "only polyviscose left and when that's finished, they won't be stocking any more."
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1993 — Rotary International (register-of-tartans, record)
March 1996. Check colours. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Woven by Lochcarron of Scotland. Scottish Tartans Society entry says that it was launched at the Rotary World Convention, Glasgow, 1997 and indicates that it was designed by the Tartans Society (Keith Lumsden) for Rotary International. A counter claim suggests that Geoffrey (Tailor) was the designer - 'only polyviscose left and when that's finished, they won't be stocking any more.' - Mar. 1996 — Rotary International (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Keith Lumsden of the Scottish Tartans Society and was launched at the Rotary World Convention, Glasgow, 1997. Initially woven by Geoffrey (Tailor) in Edinburgh but discontinued due to lack of demand. STA wrote to Rotary Int Shop in May 2011 seeking to resurrect it. - 1996 — Rotary 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
- 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: 3570
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2334
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2334
Thread count
G/30 R6 LB30 R16 G30 LY4 DB/8
One full sett is 210 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/g15r3lb15r8g15ly2db4~x2/