Kinnaird
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 BKBKBKBRBKBKBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1991
Provenance
Earliest known date: March 1996 For the Kinnaird Worldwide Association - http://www.kinnaird.net. From the Kinnaird website it would seem that anyone is free to weave this tartan (Feb 2005).
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/1996 — Kinnaird (register-of-tartans, record)
For the Kinnaird Worldwide Association - http://www.kinnaird.net. From the Kinnaird website it would seem that anyone is free to weave this tartan (February 2005). - March 1996 — Kinnaird (Australia) (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
For the Kinnaird Worldwide Association - http://www.kinnaird.net. From the Kinnaird website it would seem that anyone is free to weave this tartan (Feb 2005). - March 1996 — Kinnaird Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 01/08/1996 (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: 1991
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2242
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2242
Thread count
N/66 K8 N8 K10 N8 K14 DB82 R8 DB82 K14 N8 K10 N8 K/8
One full sett is 594 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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) |
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/n33k4n4k5n4k7db41r4~x2/