Leith
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 BKBBBBBGBBBKB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2090
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1995 — Leith (register-of-tartans, record)
Originally designed for the Tall Ships event in 1995. The design is based on the Robertson tartan in honour of Henry Robb, Leith shipbuilders. The red line marks Leith's strong links with the claret trade. The tartan has been formally adopted as the Leith District tartan. - pre 1996 — Leith (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Kinloch Anderson & John Bain of Peter MacArthur for the Tall Ships event in 1995. The design is based on the Red Robertson tartan in honour of Henry Robb - Leith shipbuilders. The red line marks Leith's strong links with the Claret Trade. The tartan was later formally adopted as the Leith District tartan. Sample in STA Collection. Worn by staff at the Royal Yacht Britannia and is sometimes mis-named as that attraction's tartan. rade.
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
- 1995 (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: 2090
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2333
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2333
Thread count
T/10 K4 T34 DB6 T6 DB44 T6 DG44 T6 DB6 T54 K4 DR/8
One full sett is 446 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/t5k2t17db3t3db22t3dg22t3db3t27k2dr4~x2/