Beckett Beaumont Artifact Tartan
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 WBWKWGWGKGWRGBGW.
Part of the Beckett Beaumont tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=7039
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2006 This design is an experiment which uses the lines, colour and spacing of tartan to visually depict information. In this sense the original districts, distinguishable, for example, through the colours of the local flora and fauna, become elements in the key of a map. This process is informed through research in various techniques of analysis and concurrent visual languages. The tartan is to be displayed at the Beurofriedrich, Berlin as part of an art exhibition, as a series of banners, in the context of other visualizations of information. The Beckett Beaumont will also be available as neckties to the visiting public. This exhibition will be the official launch of the tartan. The first white stripe on the selvege is 54 threads. The repeat should cover two thirds of the 28 inch width of the cloth, approx. The repeat size is 20 inches at 40 tpi.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 2006 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
W/108 DT14 W38 K10 W16 DGi16 W16 DGi32 K16 DG16 W42 R22 DGi14 DT22 DGi16 W/14
One full sett is 702 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #405C34 #405C34 | oklch(44.1% 0.071 136.8) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DG | #403828 #403828 | oklch(34.4% 0.029 84.4) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 1.00 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/w54dt7w19k5w8dgi8w8dgi16k8dg8w21r11dgi7dt11dgi8w7x2dgi1803133-dg1401060/