Sin-Cos
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 GKGKGGGGGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10094
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 18/10/2009 — Sin-Cos (register-of-tartans, record)
James Leonard designed based the Sin-Cos tartan on the Red Ramsay (as a tribute to Mrs Ramsay)and added a yellow stripe from the Cameron tartan as a tribute to Lindsay Cameron Nomiyama Kawai. The base is green as green is the Sin-Cos colour. The Sin-Cos Group was started in 1982, and named because its staff always went off at a tangent. It's tangents include the Kansai Highland Games, started by the owner of Sin-Cos, Maud Robertson Ramsay Nomiyama in 1989 and the Ramsay Pipeband. Sin-Cos took both these projects and provided them with equipment, funding and personnel. The Kansai St Andrew’s Society celebrate St Andrew’s day with a ball. Mrs Nomiyama, seeing the lack of highland attire at the ball, bought and made kilts which she lent to ball attendees free of charge. The enthusiastic response led to the Sin-Cos Kilt Rental Service. More and more Japanese have begun to use the service for a variety of purposes (weddings, parties, shop displays and even on television). Most recently the Scottish Academy, a nursery school taught to the British curriculum in Osaka, has been established to help British parents with Japanese spouses to educate their children in English. - 18th Oct. 2009 — Sin-Cos (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
James Leonard based this Sin-Cos tartan on the Red Ramsay (as a tribute to Mrs Ramsay) and added a yellow stripe from the Cameron tartan as a tribute to Lindsay Cameron Nomiyama Kawai. The base is green as green is the Sin-Cos colour. The Sin-Cos Group was started in 1982, and named because its staff always went off at a tangent. Its tangents include the Kansai Highland Games, started by the owner of Sin-Cos, Maud Robertson Ramsay Nomiyama in 1989 and the Ramsay Pipeband. Sin-Cos took both these projects and provided them with equipment, funding and personnel. The Kansai St Andrew's Society celebrate St Andrew's Day with a ball. Mrs Nomiyama, seeing the lack of Highland attire at the ball, bought and made kilts which she lent to ball attendees free of charge. The enthusiastic response led to the Sin-Cos Kilt Rental Service. More and more Japanese have begun to use the service for a variety of purposes (weddings, parties, shop displays and even on television). Most recently the Scottish Academy, a nursery school taught to the British curriculum in Osaka, has been established to help British parents with Japanese spouses to educate their children in English.
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
- 18/10/2009 (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: 10094
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10094
Thread count
K/60 G64 DG5 G8 DG5 G64 K60 Y8 K8 Y/8
One full sett is 512 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/k60g64dg5g8dg5g64k60y8k8y8/