Kinross
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 BGBGBYBYBGBGBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1997
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Kinross (register-of-tartans, record)
An interior decorators' drapery fabric from Brunschwig & Fils of North White Plains New York State. The note on the sample in the Johnston Collection states 'Named Kinross by Brunschwig & Fils . . . it was turned up by their designers when researching in Britain many years ago and has since been lost.' Unfortunately no dates are given and it's not known if the name was just a marketing ploy or if it was originally called Kinross. No connection with Kinross (Family) #4179 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). - pre 2002 — Kinross (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
An interior decorators' drapery fabric from Brunschwig & Fils of North White Plains New York State. The note on the sample in the Johnston Collection states "Named Kinross by Brunschwig & Fils . . . it was turned up by their designers when researching in Britain many years ago and has since been lost." Unfortunately no dates are given and it's not known if the name was just a marketing ploy or if it was originally called Kinross. The company also has London offices: Brunschwig & Fils, 10 Chelsea Harbour, London - Interior Design/Decoration near Fulham Broadway Tube Station. No connection with Kinross (Family) @ #4179.
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
- 2002 (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: 1997
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5362
Thread count
DG/40 DB4 G12 DB4 DG8 DB54 LO4 DB16 LO4 DB54 DG8 DB4 G12 DB/4
One full sett is 412 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
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/s8/dg20db2g6db2dg4db27lo2db8~x2/