King (Austria) (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 GRGKGGBRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1980
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/05/2006 — King (Austria) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Andrew, Emil and Elmar King as a personal tartan for the King family from the region of Vorarlberg in Austria. Intended for use by members of the family and those who have received personal permission from the copyright owner. Originally woven by Strathmore Wollen Co, Forfar. Inquiries for permission to wear this tartan should be directed to the Scottish Tartans Authority. The red, white and red stripes in the middle of the tartan represent the family’s residence in Austria. The yellow and black stripes enclose the inner design and represent both the former Habsburg kingdom and Hoebranz - the village where the family first settled in Austria. The base colours, red and blue, represent Scotland and green represents Ireland. - 2006 May — King (Austria) (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
A personal tartan for the King family from the region of Vorarlberg in Austria. The use is restricted to members of the family and to people who have received a personal permission from the copyright owner.The original sett was woven by Strathmore Wollen Co. of Forfar. The designers were Andrew, Emil and Elmar King. Inquiries for a personal permission should be sent to the STA. Tartan der Familie King aus der Region Vorarlberg in Oesterreich. Berechtigt zur Verwendung des Tartans sind Familienmitglieder oder auch Personen, die eine Berechtigung durch den Markeninhaber erhalten haben. Das Orginalsett wurde bei der Strathmore Woollen Co. of Forfar gewoben. Das Design wurde erstellt von Andrew, Emil und Elmar King. Anfragen f?r eine Berechtigung k?nnen nur ?ber die STA gestellt werden. The family lives now in the region of Western Austria for more than 400 years. One theory says that the ancestors of the family originally came from Scotland or from Ireland and that they had to leave for religious reasons. As the family name is an accepted Septname by the Clan MacGregor, the basic idea was to create a variation of the MacGregor Tartan. A request for a permission was declined through the MacGregor clanchief. As a result this sett was designed and woven by the Strathmore Woollen Co. of Forfar." - red/ white/ red stripes in the middle of the tartan represents the long history of the family, living in Austria - yellow and black stripes on the outside encloses the inner design. Both colors together represent the former Habsburg kingdom and Hoebranz - the village, where the family first settled down in Austria - The basic colors represent the suggested origin of the family, Scotch-red and blue for Scotland and ancient-green for Ireland
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
- 01/05/2006 (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: 1980
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6939
Thread count
W/4 R4 DB28 G32 Y4 K4 G4 R70 G/2
One full sett is 298 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) |
| 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.
ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
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298
288
288
468
270
228
380
228
426
364
380
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/w2r2db14g16y2k2g2r35g1~x2/