Kile (No red line) (Personal)
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 BWBWBWKGKWBWBW.
Part of the Kile tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1966
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1983 — Kile (No red line) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
The original notes said that this had been designed by Peter MacDonald and registered with Scottish Tartans Society on 17th January 1983. He may have designed this for an Edwin B Kile of Colorado but there is no evidence that it has ever been woven. This sett taken from original Scottish Tartans Society Sindex card. Kyle '2 has acquired a red line (between two of the whites) that was not in this 1983 original. This sett has acquired a red line (between two of the whites) that was not in the 1983 original. See Kile #1. Peter MacDonald adds (21 Nov. 2004) 'I have never seen this before and certainly did not design it.' - 1983 — Kile (No red line) (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
The original notes said that this had been designed by Peter MacDonald & registered with STS on 17th January 1983. He may have designed this for an Edwin B Kile of Colorado but there is no evidence that it has ever been woven. This sett taken from original STS Sindex card. Kyle '2 has acquired a red line (between two of the whites) that was not in this 1983 original. The original notes said that this had been designed by Peter MacDonald & registered with STS on 17th January 1983. He may have designed this for an Edwin B Kile of Colorado but there is no evidence that it has ever been woven. This sett has acquired a red line (between two of the whites) that was not in the 1983 original. See Kile #1. Peter MacDonald adds (21 Nov. 2004) "I have never seen this before and certainly did not design it." Brian Wilton note 29 dec. 2004: There is no Sindex card(s) for Kile in the STA Sindex set.
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
- 1983 (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: 1966
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1320
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1320
Thread count
DB/40 W6 DB6 W6 DB6 W6 K10 DY20 K10 W6 DB6 W6 DB6 W/6
One full sett is 234 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) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s8/db20w3db3w3db3w3k5dy10~x2/