Kennedy #3

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 GBKBKBKBGRGRGYGKGYGRGRGBKBKBKBGR.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 32 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1944

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
1880 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

G/48 DP8 K6 DP6 K6 DP6 K6 DP8 G24 O4 G4 O4 G6 LO4 G4 K4 G4 LO4 G6 O4 G4 O4 G24 DP8 K6 DP6 K6 DP6 K6 DP8 G48 R/6

One full sett is 542 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#00879F #00879Foklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
DB#1C0070 #1C0070oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
DP#3C3C60 #3C3C60oklch(37.3% 0.061 283.0)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

G/48 DP8 K6 DP6 K6 DP6 K6 DP8 G24 O4 G4 O4 G6 LO4 G4 K4 G4 LO4 G6 O4 G4 O4 G24 DP8 K6 DP6 K6 DP6 K6 DP8 G48 R/6 tartan

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.

Duncan of Sketraw Clan TartanKennedy (Clan)Unidentified (R.J.Forsyth)Stewart Hunting DStewart Hunting DStewart Hunting DHawickKerby (Personal)Myron Family TartanStewart Huntinggroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s32/g24dp4k3dp3k3dp3k3dp4g12o2g2o2g3lo2g2k2g2lo2g3o2g2o2g12dp4k3dp3k3dp3k3dp4g24r3x2dp1502277/

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