Lopez-Gasparotto
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 GBKBKBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2214
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2005 — Lopez-Gasparotto (register-of-tartans, record)
Submnitted by Peter Wilson of Great Scot International on behalf of Sergeant Melvyn Lopez (Puerto Rican) of the US Army who has just returned from a year's duty in Iraq. He took up piping in 2003 and wanted to have a kilt made in his own design. He first wore the kilt on Memorial Day 2005 in Dallas Texas at a convention of the Knights Templar association. The Gasparotto is his wife's maiden name which he wished to honour in naming the tartan. It can be worn by all of the surname of Lopez. Weavers, Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver. Threadcount doubled. - 2005 — Lopez-Gasparotto (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Submnitted by Peter Wilson of Great Scot International on behalf of Sergeant Melvyn Lopez (Puerto Rican) of the US Army who has just returned from a year's duty in Iraq. He took up piping in 2003 and wanted to have a kilt made in his own design. He first wore the kilt on Memorial Day 2005 in Dallas Texas at a convention of the Knights Templar association. The Gasparotto is his wife's maiden name which he wished to honour in naming the tartan. It can be worn by all of the surname of Lopez. Weavers, Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver. Threadcount doubled.
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
- 2005 (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: 2214
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6714
Thread count
R/8 N40 K40 DB8 K8 DB48 Y/8
One full sett is 304 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/r1n5k5db1k1db6y1~x8/