Swan, Brian E
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 KBKBKW.
Part of the Swan 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=10432
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 25/05/2011 — Swan, Brian E (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan contains four bars of colour, much like the tartans of the clans that claim Swans, Swansons, etc. as septs; though this tartan incorporates the blue and white generally associated with grants of arms to those with the Swan surname. While this is registered as a personal tartan, any person with a connection to the Swan name is more than welcome to wear it. - 25th May 2011 — Swan (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan contains four bars of colour, much like the tartans of the clans that claim Swans, Swansons, etc. as septs; though this tartan incorporates the blue and white generally associated with grants of arms to those with the Swan surname. While this is registered as a personal tartan, any person with a connection to the Swan name is more than welcome to wear it.
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
- 25/05/2011 (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: 10432
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10432
Thread count
K/12 DB34 K12 DB34 K54 W/6
One full sett is 286 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.65 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/k6db17k6db17k27w3~x2/