Dryburgh

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 GKBKBKBRGRG.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=995

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/2004 — Dryburgh (register-of-tartans, record)
    Based on Kerr and the colours of the Dryburgh coat of arms including the 3 martlet birds, matriculated for the tartan designer, William J. Dryburgh. Can be worn by all of the name. Woven samples.
  • 2004 — Dryburgh (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
    Based on Kerr and the colours of the Dryburgh coat of arms including the 3 martlet birds, matriculated for the tartan designer, William J. Dryburgh. Can be worn by all of the name.Woven samples.
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
2004 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

Y/4 O4 Y4 O32 N20 K6 N4 K4 N4 K20 DY/4

One full sett is 204 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)

Sample pattern

Y/4 O4 Y4 O32 N20 K6 N4 K4 N4 K20 DY/4 tartan

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.

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