Curnow of Kernow (Personal)
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 BYRYBKGKWKGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=852
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
- 1991 (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: 852
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4084
Thread count
DP/52 LY4 R6 LY4 DP52 K26 Y4 K16 W6 K16 Y4 K/26
One full sett is 354 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #709098 #709098 | oklch(63.2% 0.038 214.7) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LY | #E8C000 #E8C000 | oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7) |
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/dp26ly2r3ly2dp26k13y2k8w3k8y2k13x2ly3307090-y2502222/