Children In Need
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 KWKWKWKRKRKWKGKGKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5813
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/12/2008 — Children In Need (register-of-tartans, record)
Asymmetric design for the BBC by Ruth Walker of the Herriot Watt University Campus at Galashiels. Sponsored by Lochcarron of Scotland in December 2008 and woven by D C Dalgliesh (Lochcarron couldn’t weave in time for the deadline.) However they did make and donate to the Edinburgh department store, Jenners, a kilt, skirt and waistcoat in the tartan for a fund-raising raffle for the charity Children in Need. - Dec. 2008 — Children In Need (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric design for the BBC by Ruth Walker of the Herriot Watt University Campus at Galashiels. Sponsored by Lochcarron of Scotland in December 2008 and woven by D C Dalgliesh (Lochcarron couldn't weave in time for the deadline.) However they did make and donate to the Edinburgh department store, Jenners, a kilt, skirt and waistcoat in the tartan for a fund-raising raffle for the charity Children in Need.
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
- 01/12/2008 (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: 5813
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7863
Thread count
K/40 LB40 K8 LB40 K40 W8 K40 R40 K8 R40 K40 W8 K40 Y40 K8 Y40 K40 W/8
One full sett is 1008 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| 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 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/s18/k5lb5k1lb5k5w1k5r5k1r5k5w1k5y5k1y5k5w1~x8/