East Kilbride #2
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 WBKBKBBBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1067
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1990 — East Kilbride #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was commissioned by East Kilbride Development Corp. for use by its many friends and visitors and by the people of the town. Designed by the Scottish Tartans Society the tartan echoes the symbolism of the ensigns armorial granted by the Lord Lyon King of Arms. The first material was woven into rugs presented to Her Majesty the Queen who was visiting with the Duke of Edinburgh to East Kilbride on July 12, 1990. Woven by Lochcarron. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. - 1990 — East Kilbride (District) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was commissioned by East Kilbride Development Corp. for use by its many friends and visitors and by the people of the town. Designed by the STS the tartan echoes the symbolism of the ensigns armorial granted by the Lord Lyon King of Arms. The first material was woven into rugs presented to Her Majesty the Queen who was visiting with the Duke of Edinburgh to East Kilbride on July 12, 1990. Woven by Lochcarron. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection.
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
- 1990 (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: 1067
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2147
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2147
Thread count
LY/8 DR40 DO32 N20 K4 N20 K4 DR56 W/8
One full sett is 368 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
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/w2dr14k1n5k1n5do8dr10ly2~x4/