Indigo Blue
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 BWKWKWBKBKBKBKBWKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1823
Provenance
Earliest known date: January 1997 Indigo Blue Works is a UK blue (indigo) denim material weaver and this tartan was designed to promote their products in the Japaneses market. (STS data). The tartan was launched at a filmed ceremony in Pitlochry.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Indigo Blue (register-of-tartans, record)
Indigo Blue Works is a UK blue (indigo) denim material weaver and this tartan was designed to promote their products in the Japaneses market. (Scottish Tartans Society data). The tartan was launched at a filmed ceremony in Pitlochry. - January 1997 — Indigo Blue Works Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 1997 (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: 1823
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2352
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2352
Thread count
LB/10 K2 LB2 K2 LB10 DB36 K2 DBi8 K2 DB18 K2 DBi8 K2 DB36 LB10 K2 LB2 K2 LB10 DB/8
One full sett is 330 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s20/lb5k1lb1k1lb5db18k1dbi4k1db9k1dbi4k1db18lb5k1lb1k1lb5db4x2db1204274-dbi1406275/