Twempy
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 KBKWKGKBRY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4171
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 10/08/2002 — Twempy (register-of-tartans, record)
Twempy is apparently a slang name for someone from Tweedmouth in Northumbria and this seven colour tartan has been designed by Ronnie Hek of Coldstream in the Scottish Borders. Coldstream is about 14 miles from Tweedmouth which is in England and on the southern side of the mouth of the River Tweed - hence its name. - pre 2005 — Twempy (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Twempy is apparently a slang name for someone from Tweedmouth in Northumbria and this seven colour tartan has been designed by Ronnie Hek of Coldstream in the Scottish Borders. Coldstream is about 14 miles from Tweedmouth which is in England and on the southern side of the mouth of the River Tweed - hence its name.
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
- 10/08/2002 (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: 4171
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6739
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2916
Thread count
K/2 DR8 K2 W6 K2 G14 K4 DB32 R4 LY/2
One full sett is 148 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| 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) |
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/k1dr4k1w3k1g7k2db16r2ly1~x2/