Auld Reekie
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 BRBRGR.
Part of the Auld Reekie tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=133
Provenance
Earliest known date: Pre 1997 Produced by or for Barkraft Lt for use as a blanket or rug.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Auld Reekie (register-of-tartans, record)
Produced for Burkraft Ltd as a blanket or rug. Auld Reekie (Old Smokie) is the old nickname for Edinburgh, referring to the great palls of smoke from domestic fires that used to hang over the city. - Pre 1997 — Auld Reekie Trade Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 1997 (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: 133
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2381
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2381
Thread count
DB/8 R6 DB6 R44 G16 R/4
One full sett is 156 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
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/s6/db4r3db3r22g8r2x2db1406275-r2109032/