Starrett Company, L.S. (Corporate)
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 BKBKBKRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 23 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7621
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- April 2008 — Starrett Company, L.S. (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Leah Robertson of Lochcarron of Scotland for the Jedburgh branch of the New England based L.S. Starrett Comapny who employ 2,000 people in manufacturing precision tools, gauges, measuring instruments and saw blades for industrial, professional and consumer markets worldwide. Founded in 1880, Starrett is the last remaining full-line precision tool company to be manufacturing its products within the U.S.A. The design is based on Starrett's corporate colours of orange and yellow overlayed with black and grey, symbolising the company's stock-in-trade of technical drawings and steel tools. - undated — Starrett Company, L.S. (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Leah Robertson of Lochcarron of Scotland for the Jedburgh branch of the New England based L.S. Starrett Comapny who employ 2,000 people in manufacturing precision tools, gauges, measuring instruments and saw blades for industrial, professional and consumer markets worldwide. Founded in 1880, Starrett is the last remaining full-line precision tool company to be manufacturing its products within the U.S.A. The design is based on Starrett's corporate colours of orange and yellow overlayed with black and grey, symbolising the company's stock-in-trade of technical drawings and steel tools.
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
- April 2008 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5641
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7621
Thread count
R/34 Y3 R6 Y4 R4 Y6 R4 Y8 R26 Y8 R4 Y6 R4 Y4 R6 Y3 R34 K8 N3 K6 N4 K10 N/10
One full sett is 366 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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/s23/r34y3r6y4r4y6r4y8r26y8r4y6r4y4r6y3r34k8n3k6n4k10n10/