Reid and Taylor
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 BKRBKGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3493
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1984 — Reid and Taylor (register-of-tartans, record)
Reid and Taylor House Check. Launched in Tokyo in April 1984. Scottish launch August of the same year at their fashon show in Edinburgh's Pariament Hall before the Duke of Edinburgh. - 1984 — Reid & Taylor (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Based in the Scottish Border town of Langholm, the firm of Reid & Taylor has been producing high quality cloths for international fashion for over 150 years. This house check was launched in Tokyo in April 1984 and in Edinburgh's Parliament Hall in August of the same year at a fashion show which was attended by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. - undated — Reid Taylor, "House Check" (weddslist, 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
- 1984 (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: 3493
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 355
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 355
Thread count
K/4 G20 K18 DB18 R2 K2 DB/4
One full sett is 128 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/k2g10k9db9r1k1db2~x2/