St Kilda

Its design is pattern KR — the page of every tartan sharing this colour sequence.

Reconstructed by Dr Phil Smith from a fragment in Edinburgh's Royal Museum of Antiquities.

The St Kilda tartan is one sett, recorded at 2 scales — the same proportion woven finer or broader. The top row is the unit proportion; each scale row is one weaving of it.

SettΔTartanThread countThreadsDate
St KildaK/4 R/151900
St Kilda sett
  · ×6 — St Kilda0.00K/24 R/630~2003
  · ×36 — St Kilda0.00K/144 R/361801900
2 Variants: St Kilda · St Kilda

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