Davis
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 KGKBKRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=898
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2003 — Davis (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Leslie Davis of Spade Texas as a tartan for the Davis sept of Clan Davidson and woven by Molly Manaugh. Available for all of the name. Similar design to a Scott Red a fashion tartan from Artmark USA. - 2003 — Davis (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Leslie Davis of Spade Texas as a tartan for the Davis sept of Clan Davidson and woven by Molly Manaugh. Available for all of the name. Similar design to a Scott Red (ITI 5372) a fashion tartan from Artmark USA.
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
- 2003 (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: 898
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5770
Thread count
K/12 Y8 K12 DR32 K32 R32 DG8 R/12
One full sett is 272 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s8/k3y2k3dr8k8r8dg2r3~x4/