Isle of Skye District 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 GBGBGBGGGGY.
Part of the Isle of Skye 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=2155
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1993 The tartan was instigated and registered by Mrs Rosemary Nicolson Samios in 1992, an Australian of Skye descent, now living in Skye. It was selected through a worldwide competition won by Angus MacLeod from Lewis. Angus, a weaver by trade, produced the first commercial quantities in the traditional kilt weight in 1993 at Lochcarron Weavers in North Strome. The colours of the tartan depict those of the island, often called the 'Misty Isle'. Worn by the Torphican and Bathgate pipe band. (A patented design No. 0600930)
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
- 1993 (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
DY/40 DP4 DY4 DP4 DY6 DP16 DG18 Gi16 G16 DG2 LR/4
One full sett is 216 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #5C6428 #5C6428 | oklch(48.3% 0.084 116.0) |
| G | #408060 #408060 | oklch(54.8% 0.084 160.1) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.90 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/dy20dp2dy2dp2dy3dp8dg9gi8g8dg1lr2x2gi2203152-g1903114/