Masai Shuka 09 (Artefact)

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 YYYYYYYY.

Part of the Masai Shuka 09 tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

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

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/7200/ — retired · Internet Archive copy

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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references)
  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

LO/120 LY30 LO8 LY4 LO4 LY4 LO4 LY/4

One full sett is 232 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)

Sample pattern

LO/120 LY30 LO8 LY4 LO4 LY4 LO4 LY/4 tartan

ID: /variants/s8/lo60ly15lo4ly2lo2ly2lo2ly2~x2/

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