Kilsyth
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 GBRBWBRBGG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1977
Provenance
Earliest known date: January 2002 Kilsyth in Scotland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and America. Designed by William & Colin Chalmers of Howe Rd, Kilsyth, Scotland.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Kilsyth (register-of-tartans, record)
Clan/Family tartan for people from Kilsyth (Scotland) and surrounding area and all who have ancestral links with Kilsyth - in particular, inhabitants of Kilsyth Canada, Australia, New Zealand and America. Designed by William & Colin Chalmers of Howe Rd, Kilsyth, Scotland. - January 2002 — Kilsyth (District) (tartans-authority, record)
District tartan for people from Kilsyth (Scotland) and surrounding area and all who have ancestral links with Kilsyth - in particular, inhabitants of Kilsyth Canada, Australia, New Zealand and America. Designed by William & Colin Chalmers of Howe Rd, Kilsyth, Scotland. - January 2002 — Kilsyth District Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 2002 (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: 1977
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4073
Thread count
G/8 Y6 DB70 R26 DP16 W6 DP16 R26 DB70 Y/6
One full sett is 486 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/g4y3db35r13dp8w3~x2/