Brooke
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 BWBKGKRWG.
Part of the Brooke tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=380
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1993 — Brooke (register-of-tartans, record)
A 2001 D C Dalgliesh version of Brooke (STR #381) supplied in May 2006 by Phil Smith. Brooke entry reads: An 'Irish' tartan. Sindex notes compiled by the Scottish Tartans Society say suggest this is a 17th century Irish tartan obtained from A W Geddes of Kinloch Anderson, Edinburgh. - pre 1993 — Brooke (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
An "Irish" tartan. J Dalgety letter 26/3/93. Other source states that it was devised by 'historian', Angela Nisbett, to give some impression of this rare example of an Irish tartan. Sindex notes say that this is allegedly a 17th century Irish tartan the sett of which was obtained from A W Geddes of Kinloch Anderson, Edinburgh. An extremely dubious claim since there is no historical evidence of any Irish clan/family tartans. An interesting note in YTom Sinclair's Scrapbook: "In the 17th century Lord Montgomery in Armagh (who had an interest in Scottish Woollen Mills) started a factory in N. Ireland weaving tartans at a cheaper rate (lower wages) and some of his Irish and Anglo Irish friends desired some, so he invented such as Duke of Leinster, Brooke, Montgomery etc." The accompanying graphic of the Brooke shows only one white line on the blue. The note says that the Brooke was the same as the old Montgomery sett but none of them appear close to this except a West Coast Woolen Mill pattern - #5670.
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
- 1993 (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: 380
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 48
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 48
Thread count
Y/4 W4 R4 K28 G40 K32 B4 LB2 B/4
One full sett is 236 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.53 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/y2w2r2k14g20k16b2lb1b2~x2/