Reekie, Charlene
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 RGGRKW.
Part of the Reekie, Charlene tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10701
Provenance
Earliest known date: 19 September 2012 Robert Reekie designed this tartan for his sister to thank her for her dedication and commitment to the study of Reekie heraldry. Colours: magenta is for dedication; yellow is one of the family colours; green is for patience; red represents a passion for heraldry; black ties the family together; white is for compassion and purity.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 09/09/2012 — Reekie, Charlene (register-of-tartans, record)
Robert Reekie designed this tartan for his sister to thank her for her dedication and commitment to the study of Reekie heraldry. Colours: magenta is for dedication; yellow is one of the family colours; green is for patience; red represents a passion for heraldry; black ties the family together; white is for compassion and purity. - 19 September 2012 — Reekie, Charlene Name 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
- 09/09/2012 (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: 10701
Thread count
W/86 K10 R6 G10 Y54 O/10
One full sett is 256 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/w43k5r3g5y27o5~x2/