Saltcoats
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 BWKBKRKBKRKGKRKBKRKBKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3645
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 24/04/2001 — Saltcoats (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for the Ayrshire seaside town of Saltcoats. Produed in conjunction with Baxters Jewellers Saltcoats. - 2001 — Saltcoats (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Apparently commissioned by Baxters Jewellers of Saltcoats from designer Ronnie Hek for the Ayrshire seaside town of Saltcoats. Baxters' notes read as follows: "The history of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, is held within the colours of it's tartan; the blue of the sea, the biege of the sand, the black of the coal, the white of the salt and red for the sun combined with a deep and rich purple, the traditional colour of Scotland. Saltcoats tartan was first worn by the Queen of the Sea at the annual Queen of the Sea Festival held in the middle of July."
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
- 24/04/2001 (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: 3645
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3980
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2819
Thread count
DP/10 W2 K2 T28 K2 R24 K2 T28 K2 R10 K2 Y6 K2 R10 K2 T28 K2 R24 K2 T28 K2 W/2
One full sett is 428 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) |
| 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s12/dp5w1k1t14k1r12k1t14k1r5k1y3~x2/