Carbon
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 BKBBKWKWY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10710
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2 October 2012 This exclusive tartan was designed by Kinloch Anderson on behalf of Carbon Financial Partners Ltd, to reflect their corporate branding and identity. The Company was originally founded in Perth in 1999 and therefore the Perthshire District tartan has been chosen as the initial starting point for the Carbon Tartan design. Carbon is among the most stable of all the elements and encapsulates much of what the company stands for. A tonal range of Carbon Greys sit alongside Black to form the base of the design, while the other corporate colours of Orange and White are used as highlights.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 08/05/2012 — Carbon (register-of-tartans, record)
This exclusive tartan was designed by Kinloch Anderson on behalf of Carbon Financial Partners Ltd, to reflect their corporate branding and identity. The Company was originally founded in Perth in 1999 and therefore the Perthshire District tartan has been chosen as the initial starting point for the Carbon Tartan design. Carbon is among the most stable of all the elements and encapsulates much of what the company stands for. A tonal range of Carbon Greys sit alongside Black to form the base of the design, while the other corporate colours of Orange and White are used as highlights. - 2 October 2012 — Carbon 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
- 08/05/2012 (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: 10710
Thread count
DO/68 K4 DO18 DT20 K3 W3 K10 LB8 LO/4
One full sett is 204 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DT | #434546 #434546 | oklch(38.9% 0.003 228.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| DO | #3C3232 #3C3232 | oklch(32.8% 0.014 17.9) |
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/s9/do68k4do18dt20k3w3k10lb8lo4~do1301000-dt1600000/