KaDeWe
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 BGBGB.
Part of the KaDeWe tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1925
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1989 — KaDeWe (register-of-tartans, record)
Kaufhaus Des Westes is a large Berlin store who during 1989 and the Glasgow mission there had this tartan designed from a plastic bag found at the Glasgow Airport. Donald Fraser (weaver) wove it for them in store where it was given the abreviated name 'KaDeWe'. This name was on carrier bags in the store. - 1989 — KaDeWe (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Estimated count from small graphic. Pronounced Kaa - Day - Vay these are the initials of Berlin's famous department store - Kaufhaus Des Westes - originally built in 1906/07 and the largest in Europe. Famous for its gourmet food department on the 6th floor. It is reported (STS) that during 1989 and the Glasgow mission to Berlin, this tartan was designed from a plastic bag found at Glasgow Airport. Donald Fraser (weaver) wove it for them in store where it was given the store's abbreviated name 'KaDeWe'.
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
- 1989 (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: 1925
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2696
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2696
Thread count
DR/200 DG8 DR16 DG36 DR/6
One full sett is 326 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as DR/200 DG8 DR16 DG36 DR6 DG36 DR16 DG/8 — 444 threads; it folds to the canonical 326-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s5/dr100dg4dr8dg18dr3~x2/