Gordonstoun
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 KRKRGRWBRGYGRBWRGRKRKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1467
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
- 1956 (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: 1467
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 362
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 362
Thread count
K/4 R4 K40 R4 G22 R22 LB4 T22 R4 G38 LY10 G38 R4 T22 LB4 R22 G22 R4 K40 R4 K4 LB/4
One full sett is 676 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| R | #800028 #800028 | oklch(38.2% 0.152 14.5) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #408060 #408060 | oklch(54.8% 0.084 160.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #789484 #789484 | oklch(64.0% 0.040 160.0) |
| LB | #A8ACE8 #A8ACE8 | oklch(76.3% 0.086 281.2) |
| R | #980044 #980044 | oklch(43.7% 0.175 5.3) |
| LY | #E8C000 #E8C000 | oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7) |
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/s22/k2r2k20r2g11r11lb2t11r2g19ly5g19r2t11lb2r11g11r2k20r2k2lb2x2r1506019-g2203152-lb3103284-t2503227-ly3307090/