City of Edinburgh (2001) (District)
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 KWKWKRGBRWWGKBWR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=6396
Provenance
Earliest known date: June 2001 Asymmetric tartan. Lochcarron swatch. Note says June 2001 Trial. Muted version woven in 1999.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1999 — City of Edinburgh (2001) (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric tartan. Lochcarron swatch. Muted version woven in 1999. - 01/06/2001 — City of Edinburgh (2001) (register-of-tartans, record)
Asymmetric tartan. Lochcarron swatch. Note says June 2001 Trial. Muted version woven in 1999. - June 2001 — Edinburgh, City of.. (2001) District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 1999 (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: 656
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6396
Thread count
R/36 LB2 N36 K2 G36 W2 LB36 R2 N36 G2 R36 K6 W8 K6 W8 K/6
One full sett is 478 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s16/r18lb1n18k1g18w1lb18r1n18g1r18k3w4k3w4k3~x2/