Kungsholmen Snooker
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 KGKGKRKGKGKYWGWW.
Part of the Kungsholmen Snooker 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=2017
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/06/2007 — Kungsholmen Snooker (register-of-tartans, record)
The colours represent those of the snooker balls. The threadcount is based on the number 1446 - the maximum points that can be made in a break. Organised by the House of Tartan, Comrie, Perthshire. - June 2007 — Kungsholmen Snooker (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
The colours represent those of the snooker balls. The threadcount is based on the number 147 - the maximum points that can be made in a break. Organised by the House of Tartan, Comrie, Perthshire.
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
- 01/06/2007 (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: 2017
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7216
Thread count
K/52 DY4 K4 G4 K4 R8 K4 G4 K4 DY4 K52 LR4 LB52 Y8 LB4 W/16
One full sett is 388 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
| LR | #ECA0A0 #ECA0A0 | oklch(78.0% 0.091 19.3) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s16/k13dy1k1g1k1r2k1g1k1dy1k13lr1lb13y2lb1w4x4r5221030-lr7709018/