East Kilbride (Original) District Tartan
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 GRGBRKW.
Part of the East Kilbride tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2061
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1990 Colours chosen echo the symbolism of the armorial ensigns granted by Lord Lyon: White/Silver and Blue - Stewarts of Torrance White/Silver and Black - Maxwells of Calderwood Red and White - Lindsays White/Silver and Black - Industry Green and Gold - Agriculture. Black guards are added to the blue stripe when woven in reproduction colours.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1990 — East Kilbride (Original) District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — East Kilbride (register-of-tartans, record)
Colours chosen echo the symbolism of the armorial ensigns granted by Lord Lyon: White/Silver and Blue - Stewarts of Torrance, White/Silver and Black - Maxwells of Calderwood, Red and White - Lindsays, White/Silver and Black - Industry, Green and Gold - Agriculture. Black guards are added to the blue stripe when woven in reproduction colours. Scottish Tartans Society archive.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1990 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 1066
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2061
Thread count
DY/6 R20 G14 DB20 R30 K2 W/4
One full sett is 182 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s7/dy3r10g7db10r15k1w2~x2/