Arbroath Smokie
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 YBBWBRYRY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=105
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2005 — Arbroath Smokie (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Heather Yellowly of the Strathmore Woollen Co, of Forfar for Campbell Scott of Arbroath Fisheries. The tartan celebrates the European protective geographical status being awarded to the Arbroath Smokie - one of only a few food products to have been awarded this status. Colours: red represents the sandstone of Arbroath Abbey where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1320; blue and white represent the sea; the red glow of the smokie barrel and the golden yellow of the delicacy itself. - pre 2005 — Arbroath Smokie (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Heather Yellowly of the Strathmore Woollen Co., of Forfar for Campbell Scott of Arbroath Fisheries. The tartan celebrates the European protective geographical status being awarded to the Arbroath Smokie. One of only a few food products to have been awarded this status, the colours chosen represent the red sandstone of Arbroath Abbey where the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1320; the blue and white of the sea, the red glow of the smokie barrel and the golden yellow of the delicacy itself.
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
- 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: 105
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6596
Thread count
LY/2 DR90 DT46 W2 DT12 R4 LY2 R4 LY/2
One full sett is 324 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) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| 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.
ID: /variants/s9/ly1dr45dt23w1dt6r2ly1r2ly1~x2/