Royal Scottish Corporation
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 GBRBBBBRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3609
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/06/2005 — Royal Scottish Corporation (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Lochcarron of Scotland and originally woven in June 2005. The Royal Scottish Corporation, the working name of The Scottish Hospital of the Foundation of King Charles II, was set up by wealthy Scotsmen to help those from their home country who had fallen on hard times. It is the oldest Scottish charity operating outside Scotland and was granted a royal charter in 1665. Anyone born in Scotland, or married to a Scot, or with a Scots-born parent, or the widow of a spouse born in Scotland and who lives within 35 miles of Charing Cross in London is eligible for help, irrespective of religion, colour, age, gender, sexual orientation or personal history. The charity is now known as Scotscare. - 2005, June — Royal Scottish Corporation (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed and woven by Lochcarron of Scotland in June 2005. The Royal Scottish Corporation is a charity which helps Scots in London suffering hardship or seeking to rebuild or improve their lives. The Corporation traces its origins back to the Union of the Crowns in 1603 when Scots who prospered in London when King James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of England helped their countrymen who fared badly. They put donations in the "Scots box", which is dated 1611 and is displayed at the Corporation's headquarters. Over the last four centuries over a million Scots have been helped by the Corporation. Anyone born in Scotland, or married to a Scot, or with a Scots-born parent, or the widow of a spouse born in Scotland and who lives within 35 miles of Charing Cross in London is eligible for help irrespective of religion, colour, age, gender, sexual orientation or personal history.
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
- 01/06/2005 (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: 3609
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6907
Thread count
Y/4 DBi6 R6 DBi56 DB6 DBi6 DB24 R6 W/4
One full sett is 228 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| DB | #1C1C50 #1C1C50 | oklch(26.2% 0.093 277.9) |
| 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.
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