Allen Personal Tartan
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 GRGKBRBKBKBKBKBGBKGRGRGKBGBKBKBKBKBRBKGR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 40 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2482
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1997 Designed for Christopher Allen Holler of Winter Park Florida and for use by anyone of the name Allen or any of its variations.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1997 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
R/4 G24 K8 DB22 R4 DB22 K8 DB4 K18 DB4 K18 DB4 K8 DB22 DY4 DB22 K8 G24 R4 G4 R4 G24 K8 DB22 DY4 DB22 K8 DB4 K18 DB4 K18 DB4 K8 DB22 R4 DB22 K8 G24 R4 G/4
One full sett is 936 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s40/r2g12k4db11r2db11k4db2k9db2k9db2k4db11dy2db11k4g12r2g2r2g12k4db11dy2db11k4db2k9db2k9db2k4db11r2db11k4g12r2g2~x2/