Rankin #2
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 BGRGWGRKBRBRBRBRBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3460
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1932 — Rankin #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
Rev. Millar, BC Canada, says in a letter dated 1952, ''Sett of the Rankin tartan from Mr Ewen Rankin, Post Hammond P.O., Maple Ridge, British Columbia, who says: 'It was a well known Scottish tweed manufacturer who wove the material for the kilt but as some 20 years have passed since, I cannot rermember who the manufacturers were.' - pre 1932 — Rankin (1932) (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Rev. Millar, BC Canada, says in a letter dated 1952, ''Sett of the Rankin tartan from Mr Ewen Rankin, Post Hammond P.O., Maple Ridge, British Columbia, who says: "It was a well known Scottish tweed manufacturer who wove the material for the kilt but as some 20 years have passed since, I cannot rermember who the manufacturers were." See 188 for Lochcarron version of 1998.
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
- 1932 (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: 3460
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 187
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 187
Thread count
DB/72 G20 R4 G20 W4 G20 R4 K20 DB28 R4 DB24 R4 DB24 R6 DB4 R4 DB8 W/4
One full sett is 472 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s18/db36g10r2g10w2g10r2k10db14r2db12r2db12r3db2r2db4w2~x2/