Scottish Tartans Authority
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 KKWKGRKKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5584
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — Scottish Tartans Authority (register-of-tartans, record)
Originally recorded as Wilson' No.060 (STR #4660), this tartan has been adopted by the Scottish Tartans Authority as their official tartan. - 1819 — Wilsons' No.060 (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Adopted by the Scottish Tartans Authority as their official tartan on the principle that rather than design a new one, they should use an existing pattern. As Wilsons No 060 it is 'Fashion' but in its Scottish Tartans Authority persona at 7556 it becomes Corporate. - 1819 — Scottish Tartans Authority (Corp.) (tartans-authority, record)
Adopted by the Scottish Tartans Authority as their official tartan on the principle that rather than design a new one, they should use an existing pattern. As Wilsons No 060 it is 'Fashion' but in its Scottish Tartans Authority persona at 7556 it becomes Corporate.
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
- 1819 (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: 5584
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7556
Thread count
Ki/32 K4 LB4 K8 DG32 R4 Ki30 K12 LB4 Ki6 LB/8
One full sett is 248 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #00002C #00002C | oklch(13.2% 0.092 264.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #101010 #101010 | oklch(17.3% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s11/ki16k2lb2k4dg16r2ki15k6lb2ki3lb4x2ki0700000-k0504259/