Duchess of Kent
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 RWKRKRKRKRKW.
Part of the Duchess of Kent tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1004
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1930 — Duchess of Kent (register-of-tartans, record)
Said to have been found in sample books - no further details. Listed by Harry Lindley as having been designed and woven in the 1930s. In the 20s and 30s it was fashionable to design new tartans and call them after members of the Royal family. Note the similarity to the Anderson tartan which may well suggest that Wm Andersons of Edinburgh (now Kinloch Anderson) had a hand in its design. Sindex notes say that this one is thought to be an erroneous setting of RGB:WGR because the original count was taken through glass and that the shade of green normally used is very dark and here has been mistaken for black. There is a woven sample in the Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection from the US Wee Shoppe dated 1986 and called the Duchess of Kent. The thread count here has been doubled for clarity and has been checked against the woven sample. - 1930s — Duchess of Kent (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Said to have been found in sample books - no further details. Listed by Harry Lindley as having been designed and woven in the 1930s. In the 20s and 30s it was fashionable to design new tartans and call them after members of the Royal family. Note the similarity to the Anderson tartan which may well suggest that Wm Andersons of Edinburgh (now Kinloch Anderson) had a hand in its design. Sindex notes say that this one is thought to be an erroneous setting of RGB:WGR because the original count was taken through glass and that the shade of green normally used is very dark and here has been mistaken for black. There is a woven sample in the STA (Johnston) Collection from the US Wee Shoppe dated 1986 and called the Duchess of Kent. The thread count here has been doubled for clarity and has been checked against the woven sample.
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
- 1930 (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: 1004
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1368
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1368
Thread count
R/8 LB80 K12 R8 K8 R12 K8 R12 K8 R12 K8 W/8
One full sett is 352 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s12/r2lb20k3r2k2r3k2r3k2r3k2w2~x4/