KPMG
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 RYBKBKBKYBYKBKBKBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2015
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1996 Designed by Polly Wittering of House of Edgar for KPMG the international accountancy firm. KPMG International Cooperative ("KPMG International") is a Swiss entity.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/10/1996 — KPMG (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Polly Wittering of House of Edgar for KPMG the international accountancy firm. - 1996 — KPMG (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Polly Wittering of House of Edgar for KPMG the international accountancy firm who were the company's auditors at that time. It's thought that Archie Hunter of KPMG approached the House of Edgar in 1996 and that the tartan was based on McLintock (perhaps a connection at one time with KPMG) and the colours were KPMG's corporate colours in 1996. - 1996 — KPGM Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 01/10/1996 (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: 2015
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2287
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2287
Thread count
R/24 LY4 DB6 K6 DB60 K40 DR12 K20 LY4 DR8 LY4 K20 DR12 K40 DB60 K6 DB6 LY/4
One full sett is 644 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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.
ID: /variants/s10/r12ly2db3k3db30k20dr6k10ly2dr4~x2/