Forbo Nairn
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 RBKGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1226
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/11/1995 — Forbo Nairn (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for Forbo Nairn Ltd, a Swiss based company with two factories in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Based on the Nairn tartan because the company is associated with Michael Nairn, builder of the first 'floor cloth' (linoleum) factory in Scotland in 1847. - pre 2002 — Forbo Nairn (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed for Forbo Nairn Ltd - a Swiss based company with two factories in Kirkcaldy, Fife. Tartan is based on the Nairn (#1331) because of an association with Michael Nairn, builder of the first 'floor cloth' (linoleum) factory in Scotland in 1843.STS said Approved by Sir Robert Spencer Nairn. Blue and red used in this graphic in place of dark blue and red so that sett could be seen. - undated — Forbo Nairn (weddslist, record)
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
- 01/11/1995 (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: 1226
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2298
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2298
Thread count
R/8 DB48 K28 G32 LB/8
One full sett is 232 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s5/r2db12k7g8lb2~x4/