Iron Horse (Corporate)
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 BRKRWBKRBKBRKBWRKRBK.
Part of the Iron Horse tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3820
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2002 Designed for members of the Iron Horse 'Clan' (used in the loose sense) a group of American motorcycle enthusiasts wishing to express their identity and heritage through their own tartan. Only for members of the Iron Horse group and their families.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2002 — Iron Horse (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Designed by Larry Stump and Maryann for members of the Iron Horse 'Clan' (used in the loose sense) which is a group of American motorcycle enthusiasts wishing to express their identity and heritage through their own tartan. Only for members of the Iron Horse group and their families. Donald Ackerman was the 'Clan Chief' in June 2002. - 2002 — Iron Horse Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 2002 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 3820
Thread count
K/48 N16 O12 K8 R4 W4 DB4 K8 O12 N16 K64 N16 O12 K8 DB4 W4 R4 K8 O12 N/16
One full sett is 496 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | oklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #888888 #888888 | oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/k16n4o3k2db1w1r1k2o3n4k12x4n1900000-o2500000/