Auckland (Fashion)
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 GKBKBKBW.
Part of the Auckland tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/3043/ — retired · Internet Archive copy
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1999 Designed by the House of Tartan for Timely Marketing & Promotions Ltd, PO Box 28168, Christchurch, NZ. This company appears to have gone out of business without ever promoting the tartan. Copyright remains with the designers.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1999 — Auckland (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by the House of Tartan for Timely Marketing & Promotions Ltd, PO Box 28168, Christchurch, NZ. This company appears to have gone out of business (July 2005) without ever promoting the tartan. - 1999 — Auckland New Zealand District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/2000 — Auckland (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Blair Urquhart for the House of Tartan from design by and for Clinton McInnes of New Zealand. The design and copyright is owned by CJ and PJ McInnes (for Timely Marketing & Promotions Ltd) PO Box 28168, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1999 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references) - 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: 5087
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3043
Thread count
DG/6 K6 DB4 K32 DB4 K4 DB48 LB/4
One full sett is 206 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/s8/dg3k3db2k16db2k2db24lb2~x2/