Keith
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 BRBRBKGGGKBKBKBKGGGKBRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 24 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1935
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2003 — Keith (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Councillor Linda Gorn of Keith who was instrumental in having a tartan museum established in Keith circa 1998 under the auspices of the Scottish Tartans Society. Keith is also home to Macnaughton Group's weaving mill (Islay Mill). The House of Edgar who formalised this design is also part of the same group. - 2003, January — Keith (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Councillor Linda Gorn of Keith who was instrumental in having a tartan museum established in Keith circa 1998 under the auspices of the Scottish Tartans Society. Keith is also home to Macnaughton Group's weaving mill (Islay Mill). The House of Edgar who formalised this design is also part of the same group.
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
- 2003 (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: 1935
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5782
Thread count
T/18 R5 T3 R5 T3 K20 G18 DY4 G18 K20 T20 K6 T6 K6 T20 K20 G18 DY4 G18 K20 T3 R5 T3 R/5
One full sett is 513 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/t18r5t3r5t3k20g18dy4g18k20t20k6t6/