East Kilbride District 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 RKGKGKGRYRGKGKGKRWR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 19 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2128
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1990 East Kilbride district tartan was designed by Dr Gordon Teall, chairman of the Scottish Tartans Society, for the East Kilbride New Town Development Corporation. Prior to weaving the first bales of cloth, some modifications were made to the design to improve the appearance when woven in reproduction colours, taking the form of black guards and an addition black overcheck on the blue. (Blue appears dark gray or brown in reproduction colours). Both variations are represented in Dr Tealls book, District Tartans. Despite the very different appearance of the resulting fabric the sett design is essentially the same.
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
- 1990 (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
R/40 K4 Y20 K4 Y20 K4 G30 R42 LO8 R42 G30 K4 Y20 K4 Y20 K4 R54 W8 R/14
One full sett is 690 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/r20k2y10k2y10k2g15r21lo4r21g15k2y10k2y10k2r27w4r7~x2/