Brave for Men (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 KGKGBKBR.

Part of the Brave for Men tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10667

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
28/06/2012 (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/5 DY5 K5 DY34 N33 K6 N5 O/2

One full sett is 183 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
N#5C5C5C #5C5C5Coklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9)
O#888888 #888888oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)

Sample pattern

K/5 DY5 K5 DY34 N33 K6 N5 O/2 tartan

Compared to the master

This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.

Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.32 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).

this sett (top) woven against the master sett (bottom) this sett master sett ★
One weave of this sett against the master sett ★, split on the diagonal: a shared proportion runs seamlessly across it with only the shades shifting; a different proportion breaks on it.

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.

Brave for MenHighland GraniteMitchell, Cameron (Personal)Granite City (Fashion)Maine AcadiaArizona JonesCork, County (District)Queen of Scots (Commemorative))Bailies of Bennachie Corporate TartanScottish Monuments (Corporate)groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s8/k5dy5k5dy34n33k6n5o2~n1900000-o2500000/

© 2022 - 2026 · Tartan Dictionary · Powered by Hugo ·