Kinnoull
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 GWGRGGGRGRGRGRGRWRGRGRWRKRKRKRKRKRKRGRGRGRKRKRKRKRKRKRWRGRGRWRGRGRGRGRGGGRGWGW.
Part of the Kinnoull tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 78 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1995
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
- 1819 (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: 1995
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 854
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 854
Thread count
DG/32 LB6 DG18 R24 DG16 G14 DG16 R24 DG24 R16 DG24 R52 DG8 R24 DG8 R52 LB6 R24 Y66 R14 Y66 R24 LB6 R52 K4 R4 K10 R4 K4 R52 K4 R4 K10 R4 K4 R52 DG48 R14 DG48 R14 DG48 R52 K4 R4 K10 R4 K4 R52 K4 R4 K10 R4 K4 R52 LB6 R24 Y66 R14 Y66 R24 LB6 R52 DG8 R24 DG8 R52 DG24 R16 DG24 R24 DG16 G14 DG16 R24 DG18 LB6 DG32 LB/4
One full sett is 3404 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s78/dg16lb3dg9r12dg8g7dg8r12dg12r8dg12r26dg4r12dg4r26lb3r12y33r7y33r12lb3r26k2r2k5r2k2r26k2r2k5r2k2r26dg24r7dg24r7dg24r26k2r2k5r2k2r26k2r2k5r2k2r26lb3r12y33r7y33r12lb3r26dg4r12dg4r26dg12r8dg12r12dg8g7dg8r-hf3075e5a20df78da/