Child, The

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 BKGKBRBKRKBG.

Part of the Child, The 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=633

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/09/2000 — Child, The (register-of-tartans, record)
    Commercial design by Sharon McAllister, Tullibody, Clackmannanshire for her range of children's clothes. Said to represent Hope for each and every child across the world irrespective of race, social class, creed or nationality.
  • 2001 — Child, The (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
    Asymetric commercial design by Sharon McAllister, Tullibody, Clackmannanshire for her range of children's clothes. Said to represent Hope for each and every child across the world irrespective of race, social class, creed or nationality.
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
01/09/2000 (this record)
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

P/20 K2 DG8 K2 P20 R8 P20 K2 O8 K2 P20 Y/8

One full sett is 212 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
P#944090 #944090oklch(51.2% 0.151 329.4)
O#C82800 #C82800oklch(54.0% 0.199 33.0)

Sample pattern

P/20 K2 DG8 K2 P20 R8 P20 K2 O8 K2 P20 Y/8 tartan

ID: /variants/s12/p10k1dg4k1p10r4p10k1o4k1p10y4x2p5115330-o5320033/

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