Bro-Kerne
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 WBKBKGKBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=376
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/05/2005 — Bro-Kerne (register-of-tartans, record)
A corporate tartan for Fordiam, Paris, a French company specialising in Highland dress. 'Bro' is a Breton word for area and there are nine ancient areas in Brittany and the colours of of these 'Bro' tartans are taken from the area flags. The project was initiated by Fordiam owner, Richard Duclos. Woven by The House of Edgar. - 2005 May — Bro-Kerne (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Kirsty Anderson of House of Edgar. A corporate tartan for a French company specialising in Highland dess - Fordiam, 53 Rue de la Prairie, Paris, 91690 Guillerval. E-mail richard.duclos@wanadoo.fr. 'Bro' is a Breton word for area and there are nine ancient areas in Brittany and the colours of of these 'Bro' tartans are the 'mean' colours of all the area flags. Project initiated and colours directed by Fordiam owner, Richard Duclos. Woven by The House of Edgar.
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
- 01/05/2005 (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: 376
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6646
Thread count
LY/6 DB60 K2 G12 K2 DB4 K28 DB2 W/6
One full sett is 232 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/s9/w3db1k14db2k1g6k1db30ly3~x2/