Gold-Smith (Personal)
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 GKBKBKBKBKGKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10315
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 29/09/2010 — Gold-Smith (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
The Gold-Smith tartan was developed for a wedding, as a fitting way for the groom to express his ambiguous part-Scottish, part-Sassenach heritage. Its design drew inspiration first and foremost from the groom’s beloved football club, Watford FC, and their yellow, black and red colours. Happily, the official tartan of the groom’s name (Smith) also features red and yellow, so the new tartan was fashioned in reference to the Smith tartan’s pattern for those two colours, to add another connection. In addition, a line of brown was added to complement a splash of the same colour found on the bride’s dress. Finally, the name was chosen to reflect the combination of the new tartan’s football-based inspiration (Watford are called, amongst many other things, the Golden Boys) and the surname of the wearer. - 29th Oct. 2010 — Gold-Smith (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
The Gold-Smith tartan was developed for a wedding, as a fitting way for the groom to express his ambiguous part-Scottish, part-Sassenach heritage. Its design drew inspiration first and foremost from the groom?s beloved football club, Watford FC, and their yellow, black and red colours. Happily, the official tartan of the groom?s name (Smith) also features red and yellow, so the new tartan was fashioned in reference to the Smith tartan?s pattern for those two colours, to add another connection. In addition, a line of brown was added to complement a splash of the same colour found on the bride?s dress. Finally, the name was chosen to reflect the combination of the new tartan?s football-based inspiration (Watford are called, amongst many other things, the Golden Boys) and the surname of the wearer. Exclusively designed by Kinloch Anderson for Mr Phillip Smith. Restricted availability, please contact Kinloch Anderson regarding use.
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
- 29/09/2010 (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: 10315
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10315
Thread count
R/4 K50 DY4 K40 N10 K4 N8 K6 N6 K8 N4 K12 Y/4
One full sett is 312 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s13/r2k25dy2k20n5k2n4k3n3k4n2k6y2~x2/