Kelly of Sleat Hunting (Name)
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 BWBGBGKGBGKG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3871
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1995 — Kelly of Sleat Hunting (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Phil Smith for the Kelly of Sleat Family associated with Clan Donald at the request of Dr Douglas Kelly, Chaplain of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. For North American customers it is being woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver. Great Scot International (Tel: 704 556 1555) are the North American distributors. - undated — Kelly of Sleat Hunting (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Phil Smith for the Kelly of Sleat Family associated with Clan Donald at the request of Dr Douglas Kelly, Chaplain of the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. Green still not quite right. For North American customers it is being woven by Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver. Great Scot International (Tel: 704 556 1555) are the North American distributors.
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
- 1995 (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: 5143
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3871
Thread count
DG/8 K8 DG56 N8 DG8 K20 DG8 N8 DG8 N16 W3 DR/6
One full sett is 300 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s12/dg8k8dg56n8dg8k20dg8n8dg8n16w3dr6/