Kinross #2
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 RWWWBRKRKRWWWYRKRYWWWYKRKRBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 28 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1998
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1981 — Kinross #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
For Kinross family, 1981 and can be worn by all of the name. Kinross is an old name in Scotland (see Black, p404) and is found in small numbers throughout the US and Canada as well as Scotland. - 1981 — Kinross (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
For Kinross family, 1981 and can be worn by all of the name. Kinross is an old name in Scotland (see Black, p404) and is found in small numbers throughout the US and Canada as well as Scotland.
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
- 1981 (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: 1998
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4179
Thread count
O/72 LBi2 LB12 LBi2 DB16 R8 K8 R48 K8 O16 LBi2 LB12 LBi2 LO36 O12 K8 O12 LO36 LBi2 LB12 LBi2 LO16 K8 O48 K8 O8 DB16 LBi/8
One full sett is 800 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #A8ACE8 #A8ACE8 | oklch(76.3% 0.086 281.2) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s28/o36lbi1lb6lbi1db8r4k4r24k4o8lbi1lb6lbi1lo18o6k4o6lo18lbi1lb6lbi1lo8k4o24k4o4db8lbi4x2lbi3200000-lb3103284/