Knox (Personal)
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 GYWYKYWYBKYGY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2516
Provenance
Earliest known date: Feb 1998 Based on the MacFarlane (with whom Knox was associated) and designed by Keith Lumsden when with the Scottish Tartans Society for a Mr D L Knox of Lancashire. (details from Keith Lumsden 20.3.2008). This was originally numbered 7555 but that was changed to 2516 on inspection of the Tartan Society Tartans Explorer 3 floppy disk in June 2009. What WAS 2516 was then renumbered 7555.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Feb 1998 — Knox (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Based on the MacFarlane (with whom Knox was associated) and designed by Keith Lumsden when with the Scottish Tartans Society for a Mr D L Knox of Lancashire. (details from Keith Lumsden 20.3.2008). This was originally numbered 7555 but that was changed to 2516 on inspection of the Tartan Society Tartans Explorer 3 floppy disk in June 2009. What WAS 2516 was then renumbered 7555. - Feb 1998 — Knox Personal Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Knox #3 (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on the MacFarlane (with whom Knox was associated) and designed by Keith Lumsden when with the Scottish Tartans Society for a Mr D.L. Knox of Lancashire. (details from Keith Lumsden 20/03/2008).
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- Feb 1998 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5583
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2516
Thread count
DG/110 LY40 W4 LY6 K4 LY6 W4 LY6 DB36 K4 LY8 Y4 LY/6
One full sett is 360 threads.
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) |
| 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/s13/dg55ly20w2ly3k2ly3w2ly3db18k2ly4y2ly3~x2/