Scottish Heritage Preservation
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 BKBKBKGWGKBKBKBKGWGKBKBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 24 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3721
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2000 — Scottish Heritage Preservation (register-of-tartans, record)
Design by Phil Smith, 2000 for Peter Campbell of the Scottish Heritage Preservation Society. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. - 2000 — Scottish Heritage Preservation (Corp (tartans-authority, record)
Design by Phil Smith, 2000 for Peter Campbell of the SHPS. Sample in STA Johnston Collection.
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
- 2000 (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: 3721
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4107
Thread count
DP/44 K4 DP4 K4 DP4 K36 G16 LB4 G16 K32 DP32 K4 DP4 K4 DP32 K32 G16 LB4 G16 K36 DP4 K4 DP4 K/4
One full sett is 672 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/dp11k1dp1k1dp1k9g4lb1g4k8dp8k1dp1~x4/