Berkshire #1 (District)
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 BBGKGBBBGB.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3681
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1979 — Berkshire #1 (District) (tartans-authority, record)
From John Charles Thompson files - his records date it 1979. Designed by Rabbitt Goody, Cherry Valley, NY. Unclear as to which is the original although this is the favoured version and included in 'Tartans' by Johnston/Smith 1999. Woven sample done in Cheviot and Shetland wool by T M Hunter of Brora. This graphic is reasonably accurate but bears little resemblance to the woven sample because of the wools used. - c1979 — Berkshire #1 (register-of-tartans, record)
Dated to about 1979. Designed by Rabbitt Goody, Cherry Valley, NY. Unclear as to which is the original (this or Berkshire #2) although this is the favoured version and included in 'Tartans' by Johnston/Smith 1999. Woven sample done in Cheviot and Shetland wool by T M Hunter of Brora.
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
- 1979 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5049
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3681
Thread count
N/20 G12 N4 DB32 N40 G20 K4 G20 N4 T/8
One full sett is 300 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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/n5g3n1db8n10g5k1g5n1t2~x4/