Blackburn Appalachian Hunting
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 GKGGKGKGRGKGGKGK.
Part of the Blackburn Appalachian Hunting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10703
Provenance
Earliest known date: 21 September 2012 Jean-Louis Blackburn designed this tartan for his extended Blackburn relatives spread throughout the Appalachian region. The colours black, yellow and scarlet represent the coral snake, one of the dangers faced by generations of Blackburns, living in and migrating through green wilderness in the New World. The snake also alludes to "Don't tread on me," which refers to the overcoming of dangers faced in both nature and war.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 14/09/2012 — Blackburn Appalachian Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Jean-Louis Blackburn designed this tartan for his extended Blackburn relatives spread throughout the Appalachian region. The colours black, yellow and scarlet represent the coral snake, one of the dangers faced by generations of Blackburns, living in and migrating through green wilderness in the New World. The snake also alludes to "Don't tread on me," which refers to the overcoming of dangers faced in both nature and war. - 21 September 2012 — Blackburn Appalachian Hunting Name 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
- 14/09/2012 (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: 10703
Thread count
G/14 K4 G14 Y2 K4 Y2 K20 Y6 R20 Y6 K20 Y2 G22 K4 G6 K/4
One full sett is 282 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| 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/s16/g7k2g7y1k2y1k10y3r10y3k10y1g11k2g3k2~x2/