Unidentified Cant #07
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 GRBKBRGRBRGRKBRBKGRK.
Part of the Unidentified Cant tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5098
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
- 1800 (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: 5098
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3900
Thread count
G/24 R24 DB3 K21 DB3 R6 G4 R6 DB10 R6 G4 R6 K3 DB11 R42 DB10 K6 G16 R3 K/21
One full sett is 413 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as K/21 R3 G16 K6 DB10 R42 DB11 K3 R6 G4 R6 DB10 R6 G4 R6 DB3 K21 DB3 R24 G24 R24 DB3 K21 DB3 R6 G4 R6 DB10 R6 G4 R6 K3 DB11 R42 DB10 K6 G16 R/3 — 802 threads; it folds to the canonical 413-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s20/g24r24db3k21db3r6g4r6db10r6g4r6k3db11r42db10k6g16r3k21/