Smithers
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 BGKGKBWBBBBBBBWBKGKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3824
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2002 Designed by Alfred Arnold Smither. A Canadian family tartan that is open to all of the name.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
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
- 2002 (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: 3824
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2227
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2227
Thread count
G/20 K4 G20 K24 T16 LB4 T12 N4 T24 DP8 T24 N4 T12 LB4 T16 K24 G20 K4 G20 DP/8
One full sett is 516 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/s20/g5k1g5k6t4lb1t3n1t6dp2t6n1t3lb1t4k6g5k1g5dp2~x4/