Romantic Scotland (Madonna)
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 BBBBBBWBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3543
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2001 — Romantic Scotland (Madonna) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by John Gillespie of Johnstons of Elgin. Colours: Blue - after Madonna's early 'True Blue' album; yellow - after her 'Blonde Ambition' tour; pearl white - after 'Like A Virgin'; purple - to represent Scottish heather. A three line over-check echoes the style of the Ritchie tartan, and elements of the New York City Fire Brigade, the America St Andrews Bicentennial and the Sutherland tartans are all incorporated in the new design. Woven by Johnstons of Elgin. Original count was half of the one shown here and gave a sett size of 2 inches (50cms). What appears to be black is in fact navy blue. Originally named the Madonna tartan and produced to thank her for marrying Guy Ritchie at Dornoch Cathedral and Skibo Castle in 2001. - 2001 December — Romantic Scotland (Madonna) (Commemo (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by John Gillespie of Johnstons (of Elgin). Blue - after Madonna's early 'True Blue' album: yellow - after her 'Blonde Ambition' tour: pearl white - after 'Like A Virgin', purple - to represent Scottish heather. A three line over-check echoes the style of the Ritchie tartan, and elements of the New York City Fire Brigade, the America St Andrews Bicentennial and the Sutherland tartans are all incorporated in the new design.Woven by Johnstons of Elgin. Original count was half of the one shown here and gave a sett size of 2 inches (50cms). Woven sample. What appears to be black is in fact navy blue.
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
- 2001 (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: 3543
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3982
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2883
Thread count
DT/20 DP4 DT16 DB16 DT28 DB32 W4 DB8 Y/4
One full sett is 240 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) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s9/dt5dp1dt4db4dt7db8w1db2y1~x4/