Brockton

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 KWKBKBKW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=366

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/10/2004 — Brockton (register-of-tartans, record)
    A tartan to be used in the school uniform for Brockton Preparatory School, North Vancouver and woven by Fraser & Kirkbright, Vancouver.
  • 2004, October — Brockton (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
    A tartan to be used as the school uniform for Brockton Preparatory School of North Vancouver. Weaver Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver. Woven sample in STA Collection.
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
01/10/2004 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

K/4 W2 K4 DR12 K12 DR6 K56 W/4

One full sett is 192 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

K/4 W2 K4 DR12 K12 DR6 K56 W/4 tartan

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.

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