Amstartan
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 KBKBKBKWKWKBKBKBWKWKBWBWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 25 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10126
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 11/10/2009 — Amstartan (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan uses the colours of the Amsterdam flag to celebrate tartan and Scottish culture and to create a new tartan for the wedding of Hans Van Urk in April 2010. - 11th Oct. 2009 — Amstartan (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan uses the colours of the Amsterdam flag to celebrate tartan and Scottish culture and to create a new tartan for the wedding of Hans Van Urk in April 2010.
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
- 11/10/2009 (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: 10126
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10126
Thread count
K/6 DR5 K5 DR5 K5 DR5 K12 W2 K2 W2 K12 DR5 K38 DR21 K6 DR21 W2 K12 W2 K12 DR3 W2 DR3 W2 K/6
One full sett is 380 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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/s25/k6dr5k5dr5k5dr5k12w2k2w2k12dr5k38dr21k6dr21w2k12w2k12dr3w2dr3w2k6/