National Millennium
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 WBRKGGBKW.
Part of the National Millennium 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=3099
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1934 — National Millennium (register-of-tartans, record)
The National Millenium tartan is veery closely based on the 1934 National tartan produced by the National Association of Scottish Woollen Manufacturers which never proved popular. An alternative threadcount has been recorded, also by Lochcarron: W/4 B8 R32 K28 G64 Y2 B16 K4 W/4 (half sett, full count at pivots). - 1934 — National Millennium (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed in 1934 by the National Association of Woollen Manufacturers as a Scottish National tartan. It did not catch on. In 1998 Lochcarron produced a version of it with an enlarged green square which they called National Millennium. Lochcarron now call this one The National
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
- 1934 (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: 3099
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3186
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1775
Thread count
W/4 DB8 R32 K24 G72 DY2 DB12 K4 W/4
One full sett is 316 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
| 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/w2db4r16k12g36dy1db6k2w2~x2/