Keith District District Tartan
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 BKBKGYGKBRBRB.
Part of the Keith District tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=5782
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2003 Designed by Councillor Linda Gorn of Keith who was instrumental in having a tartan museum established in Keith circa 1998 under the auspices of the Scottish Tartans Society. Keith is also home to Macnaughton Group's weaving mill (Isla Mill). The House of Edgar who formalised this design is also part of the same group.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 2003 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DB/18 R5 DB3 R5 DB3 K20 DG18 LY4 DG18 K20 DB20 K6 DB/6
One full sett is 268 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as DB/18 R5 DB3 R5 DB3 K20 DG18 LY4 DG18 K20 DB20 K6 DB6 K6 DB20 K20 DG18 LY4 DG18 K20 DB3 R5 DB3 R/5 — 513 threads; it folds to the canonical 268-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s13/db18r5db3r5db3k20dg18ly4dg18k20db20k6db6/