Kinloch Anderson
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 RBRBKGKYGYGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1987
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/11/1997 — Kinloch Anderson (register-of-tartans, record)
The Kinloch Anderson tartan is exclusive, recognised worldwide and has become synonymous with the name of Kinloch Anderson and the Scottish lifestyle associated with it. The Kinloch Anderson tartan is based on the Clan Anderson tartan sett first recorded in the 13th century and so it reflects the heritage of the Anderson family’s ownership and management of the Company over six generations. The name “Anderson” means the son of Andrew and Kinloch means head of the loch. In this tartan there are 3 parallel burgundy coloured lines with the central line wider than those on either side and this is a feature taken from the Clan Anderson tartan. The colours of this unique tartan are rich classic and timeless in accordance with Kinloch Anderson’s heritage – they are navy, border brown, 2 shades of burgundy, black and antique gold. - Unknown — Kinloch Anderson #1 (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
House tartan for Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh.
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
- 01/11/1997 (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: 1987
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2404
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2404
Thread count
R/8 DY28 LO4 DY8 LO4 K12 DY6 K12 DB28 R4 DB8 R/8
One full sett is 244 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/r4dy14lo2dy4lo2k6dy3k6db14r2db4r4~x2/