Blaylock
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 KWBWRKRGRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=300
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1953 — Blaylock (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Dr Phil Smith for Beverley Blaylock of Edmonton, Canada. Can be worn by all of the name and its spelling variations. - 1953 — Blaylock (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Dr Phil Smith for Beverley Blaylock of Edmonton, Canada. Can be worn by all of the name and its spelling variations. This was one of the 17 year old Phil Smith's earliest attempts at tartan design when he was an undergraduate at George PepperdneI College (later to be Pepperdne Univesity) Beverly Blaylock was a classmate and Phil had a small square of it woven for her by some one in the art department.
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
- 1953 (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: 300
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5925
Thread count
K/8 W4 DB16 W6 R32 K4 R10 Y4 R10 W/4
One full sett is 184 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/k4w2db8w3r16k2r5y2r5w2~x2/