Takla Makan (Artefact)
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 BBBBBWBBBWBBBWBBBBBWBBBBWBWBWBBBBWBKBRBKBWBBBWBBBWBBBBBWBBBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 60 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5156
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1200 - 700BC (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 5156
Thread count
DR/24 DB2 DR4 DB2 DR24 W2 DB2 DR2 DB2 LB2 DB2 DR2 DB2 W2 DR24 DB2 DR4 DB2 DR24 W4 DB2 DR2 DB2 DR2 W4 DR6 W2 DR6 W4 DR2 DB2 DR2 DB2 W4 DR12 K4 DR14 R8 DR14 K4 DR12 W2 DB2 DR2 DB2 LB2 DB2 DR2 DB2 W2 DR24 DB2 DR4 DB2 DR24 W4 DB2 DR2 DB2 W/4
One full sett is 636 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DR | #680028 #680028 | oklch(33.1% 0.133 8.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
Sample pattern
ID: /variants/s60/dr12db1dr2db1dr12w1db1dr1db1lb1db1dr1db1w1dr12db1dr2db1dr12w2db1dr1db1dr1w2dr3w1dr3w2dr1db1dr1db1w2dr6k2dr7r4dr7k2dr6w1db1dr1db1lb1db1dr1db1w1dr12db1dr2db1dr12w2db1dr1db1w2x2db1106275/