Hébert Kitenge Family (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 GBGWGWBRGRBGBWBGRWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 19 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11304
Provenance
Earliest known date: May 2015 All the colours put together symbolize the Hebert Kitenge family with the blazon of Savoie, the flag of the Dem. Rep. of Congo, the Celtic tree of life and the white ice pick on a yellow star blue background
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 27/05/2015 — Hébert Kitenge Family (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for the Hébert Kitenge family inspired by the blazon of Savoie, the flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Celtic tree of life and other colours of significance to the family. - May 2015 — Hebert Kitenge Personal Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 27/05/2015 (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: 11304
Thread count
R/30 W4 R30 Y2 DB16 W4 DB16 Y2 DB24 R2 Y6 R2 DB24 W4 G40 W4 Y2 DB40 Y/2
One full sett is 476 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s19/r15w2r15y1db8w2db8y1db12r1y3r1db12w2g20w2y1db20y1~x2/