Smithsonian (Corporate) American 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 BWGKYRGRYBG.
Part of the Smithsonian tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=5813
Provenance
Earliest known date: April 2003 Designed by Alistair Buchan of Lochcarron to support Scotland's and Lochcarron's participation in the Smithsonian Institute's For Life Festival in Washington DC, USA June 25th - July 6th 2003.
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
- April 2003 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DB/4 W4 DG48 K48 LY2 R4 DG4 R4 LY2 DB48 DG/4
One full sett is 336 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #789484 #789484 | oklch(64.0% 0.040 160.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DG | #406054 #406054 | oklch(46.0% 0.042 169.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #E8C000 #E8C000 | oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7) |
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/s11/dg2db24ly1r2dg2r2ly1k24dg24w2db2x2dg1802166-db1204274-ly3307090/