White Stripes (Corporate)

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 KWKWRWR.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7461

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • pre 2008 — White Stripes (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed by Peter Wilson ((Great Scot International) and Gordon Kirkbright (Fraser & Kirkbright). The White Stripes are a Rock-n-Roll band from the United States of America. The band, whose members include Jack White and Meg White, formed on July 14, 1997. Band member Jack White is half Scottish and a MacPherson descendant. The White Stripes had their Hunting and Dress tartans created to commemorate their 10th Anniversary. The tartans will be unveiled at a special concert to celebrate this event on July 14th, 2007 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. The tartans are red, black, and white, the band's signature colors. The tartans have three stripes which repeat horizontally and vertically, as this number holds great significance for the band. A Hunting version has also been registered with black & red reversed. Woven sample.
  • undated — White Stripes, The (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed by Peter Wilson (Great Scot International) and Gordon Kirkbright (Fraser & Kirkbright). The White Stripes are a Rock-n-Roll band from the United States of America. The band, whose members include Jack White and Meg White, formed on July 14, 1997. Band member Jack White is half Scottish and a MacPherson descendant. The White Stripes had their Hunting and Dress tartans created to commemorate their 10th Anniversary. The tartans will be unveiled at a special concert to celebrate this event on July 14th, 2007 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. The tartans are red, black, and white, the band's signature colors. The tartans have three stripes which repeat horizontally and vertically, as this number holds great significance for the band. A Hunting version has also been registered with black & red reversed. Woven sample.
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
pre 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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

K/14 W6 K14 W90 R6 W6 R/6

One full sett is 264 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

K/14 W6 K14 W90 R6 W6 R/6 tartan

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.

MacPherson - 1842 (VS) DressMacPherson DressMacPherson 6Unidentified, ArisaidUnidentified ArisaidBuchanan #5MacPherson of Cluny (Black and White)Crane of Cluny Dress (Personal)Clayton Dress (Dance)Buchanan VSgroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s7/k7w3k7w45r3w3r3~x2/

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