Kilnsey (Fashion)

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 BBBBBWBWBWBWBWBWBWBWBWBWBWBW.

Part of the Kilnsey tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 28 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/6015/ — retired · Internet Archive copy

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Tartans Authority
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
data date
pre 2003 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DB/2 N4 DB4 N2 DB64 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W/2

One full sett is 240 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

DB/2 N4 DB4 N2 DB64 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W2 DB2 W/2 tartan

ID: /variants/s28/db1n2db2n1db32w1db1w1db1w1db1w1db1w1db1w1db1w1db1w1db1w1db1w1db1w1db1w1~x2/

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