Denholme

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 KGKBR.

Sourced from weddslist. It is a 5 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts

Provenance

Earliest known date: Unknown This tartan is remarkably similar to the Durham sett designed by Wilson's of Bannockburn around 1819. The variation in proportions may point to a deliberate modification suggested by the links between the names.

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • undated — Denholme (weddslist, record)
  • undated — Denholme Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Weddslist
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/weddslist/data.csv
data date
2016-11-17 (dataset default)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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

  1. Weddslist
    the living privately compiled reference
  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

Thread count

K/4 G16 K14 DB16 R/4

One full sett is 100 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

K/4 G16 K14 DB16 R/4 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.

Denholm (Fashion)Durham District TartanBirse Family TartanBirseGaines Center for the HumanitiesMitchell Family TartanRussell (Clan)Dyce Family TartanUnidentified pattern #3Unidentified #29groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s5/k2g8k7db8r2~x2/

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