Distripress Annual Congress 2012
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 BKRBKWKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10697
Provenance
Earliest known date: 13 September 2012 Designed for the 2012 Distripress Annual Congress held in Glasgow, Scotland. Distripress (association for the promotion of the global circulation of the press) is a non-political and nonprofit making association of companies, non profit organisations and individuals of repute, engaged in the national and international circulation of publications (newspapers, magazines, periodicals and paperback books etc). The Distripress association colours of black, red and white are used here with added greys. The central broad red line is twelve threads wide denoting the conference year 2012.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 22/08/2012 — Distripress Annual Congress 2012 (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for the 2012 Distripress Annual Congress held in Glasgow, Scotland. Distripress (association for the promotion of the global circulation of the press) is a non-political and nonprofit making association of companies, non profit organisations and individuals of repute, engaged in the national and international circulation of publications (newspapers, magazines, periodicals and paperback books etc). The Distripress association colours of black, red and white are used here with added greys. The central broad red line is twelve threads wide denoting the conference year 2012. - 13 September 2012 — Distripress Annual Congress 2012 Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 22/08/2012 (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: 10697
Thread count
R/12 K2 W8 K4 N16 R2 K31 N/2
One full sett is 140 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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/r12k2w8k4n16r2k31n2/