Rosevear
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 BGWBWBWGR.
Part of the Rosevear tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3550
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1990 — Rosevear (register-of-tartans, record)
Woven by House of Edgar for the old Cornish family of Rosevear to celebrate a major family gathering in 1990. Designed by Constance and Donald Rosevear with some input from Donald Rawe. - January 1990 — Rosevear (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Woven by House of Edgar for the old Cornish family of Rosevear to celebrate a major family gathering in 1990. Designed by Constance and Donald Rosevear with some input from Donald Rawe. These details were confirmed in April 2006 by Mrs Rawe of Par
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
- 1990 (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: 3550
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2541
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2541
Thread count
DR/100 DY8 W32 DB4 W8 DB4 W30 G54 R/8
One full sett is 388 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s9/dr50dy4w16db2w4db2w15g27r4~x2/