Kirkton

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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 GYBYBYBYGYGYGYGYGYGGBGBGGYGYGYGYGYGYBYBYBYGY.

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

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 44 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2006

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: 1984 (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: 2006
Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5368

Thread count

DG/16 LR4 N16 LR4 N12 LR4 N8 LR4 G16 LR4 G12 LR4 G8 LR4 Y16 LR4 Y12 LR4 Y8 DG12 N8 DG40 N8 DG12 Y8 LR4 Y12 LR4 Y16 LR4 G8 LR4 G12 LR4 G16 LR4 N8 LR4 N12 LR4 N16 LR4 DG16 LR/8

One full sett is 792 threads.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
DG	`#006818` #006818	oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0)
G	`#5C6428` #5C6428	oklch(48.3% 0.084 116.0)
Y	`#8B6E00` #8B6E00	oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)
N	`#636363` #636363	oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)
LR	`#FF9C97` #FF9C97	oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2)

Sample pattern

DG/16 LR4 N16 LR4 N12 LR4 N8 LR4 G16 LR4 G12 LR4 G8 LR4 Y16 LR4 Y12 LR4 Y8 DG12 N8 DG40 N8 DG12 Y8 LR4 Y12 LR4 Y16 LR4 G8 LR4 G12 LR4 G16 LR4 N8 LR4 N12 LR4 N16 LR4 DG16 LR/8 tartan

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