Dark Island Navy Fashion Tartan

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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 BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB.

Part of the Dark Island Navy tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 16 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=5833

Provenance

Earliest known date: May 2003 An ecru (white) yarn has been woven on a Jacquard loom with the sett being formed by stitches other than 2/2 twill and then the finished fabric has been piece-dyed navy blue. The sett is highlighted because of the differing light reflecting qualities of the stitches. Here they are shown in grey blue so as to be discernible. This new category of tartan has been described as a Solid Sett - a solid colour but with a sett still showing.

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: May 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/8 DBi4 DB86 DBi40 DB8 DBi4 DB4 DBi8 DB4 DBi4 DB8 DBi40 DB86 DBi4 DB8 DBi/4

One full sett is 628 threads.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
DB	`#243464` #243464	oklch(33.8% 0.087 267.7)
DB	`#1C1C50` #1C1C50	oklch(26.2% 0.093 277.9)

Sample pattern

DB/8 DBi4 DB86 DBi40 DB8 DBi4 DB4 DBi8 DB4 DBi4 DB8 DBi40 DB86 DBi4 DB8 DBi/4 tartan

ID: /variants/s16/db4dbi2db43dbi20db4dbi2db2dbi4db2dbi2db4dbi20db43dbi2db4dbi2x2db2609279-dbi3309267/