Black Hills
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 BWGRKBKGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=274
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 Designed by the Reverend John Pahls and woven by Kirkbright & Fraser of Vancouver. Phil Smith (June 2004) advises that it was commissioned by the Rev.Thomas and Elizabeth Campbell for the Black Hills Highland Games held in Sturgis, South Dakota. Another source states it is the unnofficial state tartan.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2003 — Black Hills (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by the Reverend John Pahls and woven by Kirkbright & Fraser of Vancouver. Commissioned by the Rev Thomas and Elizabeth Campbell for the Black Hills Highland Games held in Sturgis, South Dakota. - pre 2003 — Black Hills (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by the Reverend John Pahls and woven by Kirkbright & Fraser of Vancouver. Phil Smith (June 2004) advises that it was commissioned by the Rev.Thomas and Elizabeth Campbell for the Black Hills Highland Games held in Sturgis, South Dakota. Another source states it is the unnofficial state tartan. - pre 2003 — Black Hills (South Dakota) American Corporate 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
- 2003 (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: 274
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5815
Thread count
DB/6 W4 G28 R28 K4 DB14 K18 DY4 K/4
One full sett is 210 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) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s9/db3w2g14r14k2db7k9dy2k2~x2/