TIlted Kilt
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 RBKGKWKGRKRW.
Part of the TIlted 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=10682
Provenance
Earliest known date: 23 August 2012 The Tilted Kilt is a Celtic-themed pub franchise based in Tempe, Arizona, USA. The tartan is used in staff costume and throughout brand presence. It was designed and the first 2000 metres of it produced by Marton Mills (England). A further 2000-plus metres have since been produced. It has appeared in advertisments, on television and on race cars, boats and other applications. It has also been included in the Tilted Kilt trade dress registration in the US Patent Office.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 15/03/2006 — TIlted Kilt (register-of-tartans, record)
The Tilted Kilt is a Celtic-themed pub franchise based in Tempe, Arizona, USA. The tartan is used in staff costume and throughout brand presence. It was designed and the first 2000 metres of it produced by Marton Mills (England). A further 2000-plus metres have since been produced. It has appeared in advertisments, on television and on race cars, boats and other applications. It has also been included in the Tilted Kilt trade dress registration in the US Patent Office. - 23 August 2012 — TIlted Kilt Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 15/03/2006 (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: 10682
Thread count
R/66 DB2 K11 Y4 K2 W4 K11 G2 R8 K2 R8 W/2
One full sett is 176 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/r66db2k11y4k2w4k11g2r8k2r8w2/