National Trust for Scotland (Corpora

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 GBKBGGBBBGKBGBGBK.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 17 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5629

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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DG/26 DB4 K4 DB4 DG26 G8 DB28 DP4 DB28 G8 K24 DB4 DG4 DB4 DG4 DB4 K/24

One full sett is 366 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)

Sample pattern

DG/26 DB4 K4 DB4 DG26 G8 DB28 DP4 DB28 G8 K24 DB4 DG4 DB4 DG4 DB4 K/24 tartan

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.

Thormanby Buccaneer BayCumbernauld District TartanScottish Women's Rural Institutes, TheMacMillan Hunting #2Rogers Family (Kilkeel) (Personal)Junior Chamber InternationalWilson's No.230Stephenson Htg (Name)Black Watch Plaid of PipersMacKenzie - 1780 (Clan) as 78thgroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s17/dg13db2k2db2dg13g4db14dp2db14g4k12db2dg2db2dg2db2k12~x2/

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