Carstairs
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 GYWBKBKBKBWGWY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=581
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/2001 — Carstairs (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by the late (2002) Don Smith of Heraldic Graphics for a Derek Carstairs, a Scot living in Belfast. This tartan is for anyone of the name of Carstairs. The name possibly comes from the village in South Lanarkshire. - 2001 — Carstairs (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by the late (2002?) Don Smith of Heraldic Graphics for a Derek Carstairs, a Scot living in Belfast. No restrictions on its use. Estimated thread count for display purposes only.
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
- 01/09/2001 (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: 581
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4032
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2836
Thread count
G/10 LY4 W4 DB16 K4 DB10 K4 DB56 K4 DB20 W8 G6 W4 LY/8
One full sett is 298 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
| 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/s14/g5ly2w2db8k2db5k2db28k2db10w4g3w2ly4~x2/