Burnett

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 GRGRGYGR.

Part of the Burnett tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=443

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/2002 — Burnett (register-of-tartans, record)
    Woven by Lochcarron of Scotland. Note that the yellow lines are on green bands here.
  • pre 2002 — Burnett (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
    Woven by Lochcarron of Scotland. Note that the yellow lines are on green bands here unlike #3772 by Dalgliesh where they are on black. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection + Lochcarron swatch. The latter has a darker red and dark green.
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

  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

R/8 G28 LY6 G28 R8 G6 R58 Y/8

One full sett is 284 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)

Sample pattern

R/8 G28 LY6 G28 R8 G6 R58 Y/8 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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