Raith Rovers Football Club
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 BWBWBRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3446
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1995 — Raith Rovers Football Club (register-of-tartans, record)
Raith Rovers Football Club's corporate colours. Design by Norma Scollin of Kirkwynd Highland House, Kirkcaldy and D.C.Dalgleish of Selkirk. Scottish Tartans Society notes state that it was produced after winning the Coca Cola Cup resulting in a foray into Europe playing a German side called Bayern Munich. Count checked by House of Edgar against woven sample in August 2003. Other Tartan Society notes say produced for Club's entry into European compeition in 1995. - May 2002 — Raith Rovers (Sports) (tartans-authority, record)
Raith Rovers Football Club's corporate colours. Design by Norma Scollin of Kirkwynd Highland House, Kirkcaldy and D.C.Dalgleish of Selkirk. Tartan Society notes state that it was produced after winning the Coca Cola Cup resulting in a foray into Europe playing a German side called Bayern Munich. STS notes also state 'produced for the club's entry into European competition in 1995.'
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
- 1995 (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: 3446
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2424
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2424
Thread count
DBi/6 W4 DB4 W6 DBi48 R2 DBii72 R/2
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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.
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