Keeling
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 GGGRKBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10061
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 10/06/2009 — Keeling (register-of-tartans, record)
The Keeling tartan symbolises a wholesale shift in the energy basis of civilisation, from fossil fuels (grey and black track) to 100 per cent clean energy (green and yellow track). It is named in honour of the late Charles David Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, whose measurements from 1958 onwards supplied the first concrete evidence of rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, commonly known as the ‘Keeling Curve’. Today, ninety-seven percent of actively publishing climate scientists agree that man-made climate change is for real. Permission to adopt the Keeling name was graciously granted by his son, Ralph Keeling, director of the Scripps CO2 Program that continues the vital measurement series to this day. See also the Keeling Dress tartan. - 10th June 2009 — Keeling (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan symbolises the battle between today's unsustainable fossil fuel-based civilisation (represented by grey rails on a black bed) and the sustainable, low-carbon alternative that must prevail (represented by green rails on a solar bed). Named in honour of the late Charles David Keeling of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, whose measurements at the South Pole and Hawaii from 1958 onwards supplied the first concrete evidence of rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and drew the world's attention to the effects that human activity was having on the Earth's climate.
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
- 10/06/2009 (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: 10061
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10061
Thread count
Y/34 G14 Y12 R86 K10 N12 K/26
One full sett is 328 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/y17g7y6r43k5n6k13~x2/