Dundee Discovery (Corporate)
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 BKBKBKBKBGYGYKBKYGYGBKBKBKGBGK.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 30 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2512
Provenance
Earliest known date: Nov. 1996 Asymmetric sett designed in 1996 by Keith Lumsden of the STS for the District Council. Dundee is the home of the RRS Discovery on which Scott and Shackleton sailed to the Antarctic.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Nov. 1996 — Dundee Discovery (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric sett designed in 1996 by Keith Lumsden of the STS for the District Council. - 01/06/1997 — Dundee Discovery (register-of-tartans, record)
The Scottish Tartan Society combined with Bruce Kelly the Dundee City Chambers Administrator created this tartan which has been taken up by Dundee's Discovery Point. It provides another Dundee District tartan but quieter in colour than the others. The background is Black Watch commemorating the city's association with that Regiment and the overcheck is a much reduced version of Wilson's of Bannockburn's 1818 design of the Dundee tartan. 1997. - undated — Dundee Discovery Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- Nov. 1996 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 1033
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2512
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2512
Thread count
K/28 G24 DR4 G24 K28 DB40 K4 DB8 K4 DB40 G24 LO6 G6 LO2 K6 DR4 K6 LO2 G6 LO6 G24 DB8 K4 DB8 K4 DB44 K4 DB8 K4 DB/8
One full sett is 740 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s30/k14g12dr2g12k14db20k2db4k2db20g12lo3g3lo1k3dr2k3lo1g3lo3g12db4k2db4k2db22k2db4k2db4~x2/