Investors Group
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 WKBWKWKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5320
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2005 — Investors Group (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Kinloch Anderson Ltd for the Investors Group Inc, a Canadian company, to commemorate their attendance at a conference in Scotland in May/June 2005. Investors Group Inc specialises in personal financial planning services with 100 planning centres across Canada. - 2005 — Investors Group (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Kinloch Anderson Ltd of Edinburgh for the Investors Group Inc - a Canadian company - to commemoratetheir attendance at a conference in Scotland in May/June 2005. Investors Group Inc is a large Canadian company specialising in personal financial planning services and 'works out of' 100 financial planning centres across Canada. No details available on design rationale.
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
- 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: 5320
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6732
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3036
Thread count
LB/28 K8 W8 K8 W8 K8 LB28 T16 K40 W/8
One full sett is 284 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #2888C4 #2888C4 | oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| LP | #E4A6DB #E4A6DB | oklch(80.0% 0.100 331.6) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| LB | #A8ACE8 #A8ACE8 | oklch(76.3% 0.086 281.2) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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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