DDB Canada (Fashion)
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 KBKBKGK.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7657
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- June 2008 — DDB Canada (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by the Vancouver based 'Janet Helm Presents' design company for their client DDB Canada (a division of Omnicon Canada) for making into scarves. This is one of a series of tartans that appear to be produced as promotional gifts for major companies - see Coca Cola, Versa/Cold/Atlas & Colliers International. - undated — DDB Canada (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by the Vancouver based 'Janet Helm Presents' design company for their client DDB Canada (a division of Omnicon Canada) for making into scarves. This is one of a series of tartans that appear to be produced as promotional gifts for major companies - see Coca Cola, Versa/Cold/Atlas & Colliers International.
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
- June 2008 (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: 5665
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7657
Thread count
K/2 N4 K14 N22 K36 Y4 K/2
One full sett is 164 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s7/k1n2k7n11k18y2k1~x2/