Melieres, Michel (Personal)
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 KRGRGRGRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2912
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1966 tba
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1966 — Melieres, Michel (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Sindex notes: 'These two setts #1168 and #1171 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) were designed in 1966 by Michele Melieres, a Frenchman, who, while in Scotland, and in return for use of the Tartan Information Centre for sleeping at night, assisted in organising the Society library and general archival work. He designed the tartan for wear at his wedding in Dunblane Cathedral with a different version for his wife.' - 1966 — Melieres, Michel (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Sindex notes: "These two setts (#1168 ғ) were designed in 1966 by Michele Melieres, a Frenchman, who, while in Scotland, and in return for use of the Tartan Information Centre for sleeping at night, assisted in organising the Society library and general archival work. He designed the tartan for wear at his wedding in Dunblane Cathedral with a different version for his wife." - 1966 — Melieres Michel.. Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Melieres Michel.. (weddslist, record)
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
- 1966 (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: 2912
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1168
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1168
Thread count
K/4 R2 G16 R6 G6 R28 Y2 R2 W/4
One full sett is 132 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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/s9/k2r1g8r3g3r14y1r1w2~x2/