Granite City (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 KBKBBKBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7459
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2007 — Granite City (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Thought to have been produced for Mike King of Aberdeen. . It is believed that Lochcarron of Scotland have now (Jan 2008) trademarked the word 'Granite' when used in connection with tartans. Count and sample from Lochcarron when woven for McCalls of Aberdeen. Woven sample received Ref. CTST/S394 & called 'Grey Pride' and annotated McCalls. However, Lochcarron already have a tartan called Grey Pride of Scotland at 7519. Needs investigation. - undated — Silver Granite (register-of-tartans, record)
Produced for Mike King of Philip King Tailoring Ltd, Aberdeen. Previously recorded by the STA as 'Granite City'.
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 2007 (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: 5505
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7459
Thread count
K/6 Ni6 K6 Ni42 N42 K6 N6 LB/2
One full sett is 224 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | oklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| N | #505050 #505050 | oklch(43.1% 0.000 89.9) |
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/k3ni3k3ni21n21k3n3lb1x2ni1900000-n1700000/