Homecoming (Fashion)
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 BBKBKBKBRGRGRGR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7823
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Dec. 2008 — Homecoming (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
The designer's notes read: "At the heart of the design is the central sett of the Burns family tartan to celebrate his 250th Anniversary. The red lines in the moss green symbolise the ancient bloodlines running through the land and across the world and the blue with silver surround, while recalling the Saltire flag, also represent the seas that have separated us for so long." Lest the wrong impression should be given, the Burns tartan is not an ancient one but was designed between 1930 & 1950. - undated — Homecoming (register-of-tartans, record)
The designer's notes read: "At the heart of the design is the central sett of the Burns family tartan to celebrate his 250th Anniversary. The red lines in the moss green symbolise the ancient bloodlines running through the land and across the world and the blue with silver surround, while recalling the Saltire flag, also represent the seas that have separated us for so long." Lest the wrong impression should be given, the Burns tartan was designed between 1930 & 1950.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- Dec. 2008 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5779
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7823
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3275
Thread count
R/4 G4 R4 G22 R4 G4 R4 T8 K30 T6 K6 T6 K6 T28 N/4
One full sett is 272 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
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/s15/n2t14k3t3k3t3k15t4r2g2r2g11r2g2r2~x2/