Blackdown Hills
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 KBGBBBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5299
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1991 — Blackdown Hills (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Ian Gammon of Coldharbour Mill, Uffculme, Devon, to celebrate the designation of the Blackdown Hills on the Devon/Somerset border as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Sole world distribution rights held by 'Kilts by Lindsay' of West Lothian, Scotland. Email:info@kiltsbylindsay.co.uk. Tel:01506 413556 - 1991 — Blackdown Hills (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
The Blackdown Hills on the Devon/Somerset border were designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in 1991 and this tartan was designed by Coldharbour Mill's factory manager Ian Gammon to celebrate that occasion. Coldharbour Mill is at Cullompton or Uffculme in Devon. Sole world distribution rights held by 'Kilts by Lindsay' of West Lothian Scotland info@kiltsbylindsay.co.uk. 01506 413556
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
- 1991 (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: 5299
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6711
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3022
Thread count
K/32 DT32 DY8 DT32 DR32 DB32 LR/8
One full sett is 312 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/k4dt4dy1dt4dr4db4lr1~x8/