Caskie
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 GKGRWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=591
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1978 — Caskie (register-of-tartans, record)
The guess is that this is possibly to commemorate Donald Caskie (1902 - 1983) known as the Tartan Pimpernell. This version ties in with the colours of the paper strip found in Harry Lindley's papers but not with the proportions which are taken from the count. Found in Agenda for the Lord Lyon's Tartan Committee 4th March 1978. The Caskie and other tartans were from 'petitioners' seeking to have their tartans recorded with Lyon. No other details known. Comment in Agenda says: 'All the Petitioners are Chiefs of the Name except in the case of Caskie. It has been for sometime the practice of Lyon Office not to entertain Pettitions except from Chiefs of the Name.' - pre 1978 — Caskie (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
The guess is that this is possibly to commemorate Donald Caskie (1902 - 1983) known as the Tartan Pimpernell. This version ties in with the colours of the paper strip found in Harry Lindley's papers but not with the proportions which are taken from the count used in 5893. Found in Agenda for the Lord Lyon's Tartan Committee 4th March 1978. The Caskie and other tartans were from 'petitioners' seeking to have their tartans recorded with Lyon. No other details known. Comment in Agenda says: "All the Petitioners are Chiefs of the Name except in the case of Caskie. It has been for sometime the practice of Lyon Office not to entertain Petitions except from Chiefs of the Name."
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
- 1978 (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: 591
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5894
Thread count
Y/6 K2 G24 R14 LB50 K2 W/6
One full sett is 196 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| 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/y3k1g12r7lb25k1w3~x2/