Royal Marines Condor
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 KRKBRGY.
Part of the Royal Marines Condor 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=3602
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1994 Designed by Jack Dalgety for Lt.Col. Wilsey of Royal Marines, Condor Depot. December 1994. Woven by D.C.Dalgleish of Selkirk. The design is basically the Angus tartan (#1179) which is the Scottish county in which Condor Depot is located with changes to the overcheck. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1994 — Royal Marines Condor (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Jack Dalgety for Lt.Col. Wilsey of Royal Marines, Condor Depot. December 1994. Woven by D.C.Dalgliesh of Selkirk. The design is basically the Angus tartan (#1179, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) which is the Scottish county in which Condor Depot is located with changes to the overcheck. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Dalgety Collection. - 1994 — Royal Marines Condor Regimental 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
- 1994 (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: 3602
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2330
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2330
Thread count
K/16 R8 K72 DB96 R12 G6 LO/4
One full sett is 408 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| 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) |
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/k8r4k36db48r6g3lo2~x2/