Johnnie Walker (1985)
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 KRKRKRKYRKRKRK.
Part of the Johnnie Walker tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1894
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1985 Check this entry...
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1985 — Johnnie Walker (1985) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Mrs Jill Edgeworth for John Walker & Son Ltd . 1985 - 1985 — Johnnie Walker (1985) (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Sindex notes: House of Tartan 1985 for Johnnie Walker Whisky. - 1985 — Johnnie Walker Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 1985 (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: 1894
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1174
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1174
Thread count
K/60 R8 K4 R8 K4 R16 LO4 K4 R56 K4 R8 K4 R4 K/40
One full sett is 348 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/k15r2k1r2k1r4lo1k1r14k1r2k1r1k10~x4/