Sikh Clan/Family 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 BGRKRKRKRKRGBG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2654
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1999 Commissioned by a Mr A.J. Singh to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his family's arrival in Scotland. Can be worn by anyone of the Sikh faith. It was also to celebrate the 300th (??) anniversary of the founding of the Sikh religion that falls in the year Two Thousand.
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
- 1999 (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
DT/40 G40 O6 K8 O6 K8 O60 K8 O6 K8 O6 G40 DT40 Y/8
One full sett is 520 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s14/dt20g20o3k4o3k4o30k4o3k4o3g20dt20y4~x2/