Kirk
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 RGRKRYR.
Part of the Kirk tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2003
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/10/1999 — Kirk (register-of-tartans, record)
A design based on Maxwell by Dr Phil Smith ofTECAsubmitted on behalf of Gilbert and Nancy Kirk of Missouri. Intended for use by all of the name Kirk. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Green should be even darker. - October 1999 — Kirk (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
A design based on Maxwell by Dr Phil Smith of TECA and submitted on behalf of Gilbert and Nancy Kirk of Missouri. Intended for use by all of the name Kirk. Green should be even darker.
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
- 01/10/1999 (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: 2003
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4229
Thread count
R/8 G42 R8 K14 R68 LO6 R/8
One full sett is 292 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as R/8 LO6 R68 K14 R8 G42 R8 G42 R8 K14 R68 LO/6 — 570 threads; it folds to the canonical 292-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s7/r4g21r4k7r34lo3r4~x2/