Scotsman
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 BBKBGKG.
Part of the Scotsman 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=3687
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/11/1999 — Scotsman (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for the national newspaper 'The Scotsman'. The colours were based on the corporate colours and the MacIntosh and MacLaren setts, in honour of the newspaper's founders. - Nov. 1999 — Scotsman (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
For the national newspaper The Scotsman. Colours based on corporate colours and setts taken from MacIntosh and MacLaren tartans - the founders were a William Ritchie (Fife born solicitor) and Charles MacLaren (Customs Officer). Newspaper founded on Robert Burn's birthday on 25th January 1817. Scotsman explanation reads "The "Sett" of the Scotsman tartan is designed to reflect this heritage and was based upon the clans of its founding members, the MacLaren's and the MacIntosh's. The colours of the tartan feature The Scotsman corporate colours: blue representing the company logo and purple and green symbolising The Scotsman thistle. By intergrating the past with the present, The Scotsman tartan range is intended to represent the success and quality image of the company today, whilst reflecting its strong Scottish heritage."
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
- 01/11/1999 (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: 3687
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2645
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2645
Thread count
G/42 K28 G18 DB42 K6 DB24 DP/6
One full sett is 284 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/g21k14g9db21k3db12dp3~x2/