Spirit of Fife
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 GWBGRBGBGBRGBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3863
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/02/2005 — Spirit of Fife (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Claire Donaldson of The House of Edgar, Perth for Robert Mathieson of The Kilt Centre in Hamilton who was responding to a request from Fife Radio for a new tartan for the county. Different warp & weft. Colours very poor here - refer to weaver's printout. - 2005 Feb — Spirit of Fife (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Claire Donaldson of The House of Edgar, Perth for Robert Mathieson of The Kilt Centre in Hamilton who was responding to a request from Fife Radio for a new tartan for the county. Different warp & weft. Colours very poor here - refer to weaver's printout.
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
- 01/02/2005 (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: 3863
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6526
Thread count
DG/20 W4 DT6 G4 O28 DB52 DG4 DB12 DG4 DB52 O28 G4 DT6 W/4
One full sett is 432 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s8/dg10w2dt3g2o14db26dg2db6~x2/