Carnegie of Skibo (Corporate)
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 WBWBBKBKGGW.
Part of the Carnegie of Skibo tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3814
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- December 2001 — Carnegie of Skibo (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Only available from Robert Mathieson, The Kilt Centre, 1 Campbell Lane, Hamilton. ML3 6DB. Scotland. Tel: +44 (0)1698 200 234. e-mail: kiltcentre@btconnect.com Lochcarron swatch. A corporate tartan for use in kilt hire. The name was chosen to imbue the tartan with some relevant provenance since Andrew Carnegie bought Skibo Castle in 1898 as his Scottish retirement home. - undated — Carnegie of Skibo (register-of-tartans, record)
Only available from Robert Mathieson, The Kilt Centre, 1 Campbell Lane, Hamilton. ML3 6DB. Scotland. Tel: +44 (0)1698 200 234. e-mail: kiltcentre@btconnect.com Lochcarron swatch. A corporate tartan for use in kilt hire. The name was chosen to imbue the tartan with some relevant provenance - Andrew Carnegie's retirement residence.
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
- December 2001 (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: 5129
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3814
Thread count
W/6 DB10 LB4 DB18 DP20 K4 DP10 K4 DG16 G58 W/4
One full sett is 298 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/s11/w3db5lb2db9dp10k2dp5k2dg8g29w2~x2/