Masai Shuka 06 (Artefact)

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 BBBBBBBBBB.

Part of the Masai Shuka 06 tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/7197/ — retired · Internet Archive copy

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Tartans Authority
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
data date
pre 2007 (this record)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references)
  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

DR/100 DP2 DR8 DP6 DR16 DP30 DR4 DP4 DR6 DP/8

One full sett is 260 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)

Sample pattern

DR/100 DP2 DR8 DP6 DR16 DP30 DR4 DP4 DR6 DP/8 tartan

ID: /variants/s10/dr50dp1dr4dp3dr8dp15dr2dp2dr3dp4~x2/

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