Skene (Maclan)

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 KBKRKGKYKGRK.

Part of the Skene tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3804

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
2017-01-06 (dataset default)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

K/8 DB48 K8 R6 K8 G48 K8 LO6 K8 G48 R6 K/8

One full sett is 404 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)

Sample pattern

K/8 DB48 K8 R6 K8 G48 K8 LO6 K8 G48 R6 K/8 tartan

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.

Skene NSkene NSkene NSkeneConnolly HuntingScott #2Connolly Hunting (Name)Scottish Rugby Union (City of Nagasaki)Allen (1996)Letham Hunting (Name)groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s12/k4db24k4r3k4g24k4lo3k4g24r3k4~x2/

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