Kerby (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 BWBKGKGKGGGBGGGKGKGKBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1952
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1998 — Kerby (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
From Kenneth W.H.Kerby from Tennessee's Cumberland Basin to celebrate the birth of a first son. The Kerby family originally came from Berwickshire being early American settlers. Possible confusion over spelling of name (Kerby - v Kirby). - pre 2002 — Kerby (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
From Kenneth W.H.Kerby from Tennessee's Cumberland Basin to celebrate the birth of a first son. The Kerby family originally came from Berwickshire being early American settlers. Possible confusion over spelling of name. (Kerby - v - Kirby).
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
- 1998 (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: 1952
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2496
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2496
Thread count
DP/8 W4 DP20 K20 G6 K6 G6 K4 G48 Y4 G4 DR8 G4 Y4 G48 K4 G6 K6 G6 K20 DP20 W/4
One full sett is 508 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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) |
| 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/dr4g2y2g24k2g3k3g3k10dp10w2dp4~x2/