United Distillers
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 GYKYBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4397
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1990 — United Distillers (register-of-tartans, record)
Presumably designed by James Welstead. Said to be a fine example of good style when weaving a different warp and weft. WR asked for in the thread count: assumed it meant wine red. Three samples in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. There is another tartan designed by Kinloch Anderson in 1990. Colour shades are quite wrong here - need to get warp and weft from Lochcarron. - pre 1991 — United Distillers (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Presumably designed by James Welstead. Said to be a fine example of good style when weaving a different warp and weft. Three samples in STA Johnston Collection.
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
- 1990 (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: 4397
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2098
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2098
Thread count
DY/4 LY28 K28 LY2 DR28 LY/4
One full sett is 180 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s6/dy2ly14k14ly1dr14ly2~x2/