Kerr
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 GKGKGKRKRK.
Part of the Kerr tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1954
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1842 The Kerrs are believed to be of Viking descent, arriving in the Borders of Scotland by way of France. The Kerrs of Ferniehurst lived near Jedburgh. The Marquesses of Lothian now live at Monteviot. The true origin of the tartan is unknown as the claims of antiquity in the Vestiarium Scoticum, where this sett first appears, are doubtful.
6 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1842 — Kerr (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount recorded by the Marquis of Lothian, Chief of the Kerrs, in the Lyon Court Books (writs section), 78, 25 January 1988. The fist published recording of this tartan was in the Sobieski Stuart's 'Vestiarium Scoticum' (1842). - 1842 — Kerr Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Kerr (weddslist, record)
- undated — Kerr (weddslist, record)
- undated — Kerr (weddslist, record)
- undated — Kerr (weddslist, 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
- 1842 (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: 1954
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 791
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 791
Thread count
G/40 K2 G4 K2 G6 K28 R56 K2 R4 K/8
One full sett is 256 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
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/s10/g20k1g2k1g3k14r28k1r2k4~x2/