Crombie House Check Corporate Tartan

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 BGBWKWBGBG.

Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 10 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2302

Provenance

Earliest known date: pre 1997 A Corporate tartan for a general merchandising company whose mills were at Langholm, Dumfriesshire. Dark green and royal blue called for but lighter colours used here to display the sett.

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
House of Tartan
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
data date
pre 1997 (this record)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. House of Tartan
    the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity
  2. 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
  3. this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
    each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources

Thread count

DB/36 G12 DB4 LB20 K6 LB20 DB4 G12 DB36 G/4

One full sett is 268 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#2C2C80 #2C2C80oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6)
DB#1C0070 #1C0070oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1)
DG#003820 #003820oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
DG#285800 #285800oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)

Sample pattern

DB/36 G12 DB4 LB20 K6 LB20 DB4 G12 DB36 G/4 tartan

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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