Baillie of Polkemmet
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 BKBKBKGWGWGWGKBKB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=165
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1937 — Baillie of Polkemmet (register-of-tartans, record)
This sett was designed by Mr A W Geddes of Messrs William Anderson, Edinburgh, in 1937. It is based on the MacKenzie tartan, substituting three fine white lines on the green in place of the single stripe. It was designed for the Baillies of Polkemett who owned the Barony of Polkemett. Geddes also produced a red sett for the Baillies around the same period. - 1937 — Baillie of Polkemett, Green (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Baillie of Polkemet was designed by Mr A W Geddes of Wm Andersons of Edinburgh (now Kinloch Anderson) and is based on the MacKenzie tartan with three narrow white lines on the green instead of the single stripe. Geddes also produced a red sett for the Baillies around the same period - 1008
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
- 1937 (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: 165
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 206
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 206
Thread count
DB/44 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K36 G36 W4 G4 W4 G4 W4 G36 K36 DB32 K4 DB/4
One full sett is 480 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
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/s17/db11k1db1k1db1k9g9w1g1w1g1w1g9k9db8k1db1~x4/