Llewellen of Wales

In pattern BKBKBKWKR.

This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2138

Also known as

This cloth is also recorded under:

• Llewellyn

Attestations

This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.

• 01/01/2002 — Llewellen of Wales (register-of-tartans, record)
• undated — Llewellyn Welsh Name Tartan Tartan Number: 5759. Earliest known date: 2002 The tartan for this Welsh surname and its variations, Flello, Flellos, Hillin, Hilling, Lello, Lellow, Lewelin, Lewhellin, Llew, Llewelin, LLewelyn, LLewellin, Llewelling, Llewellyn, LLewheling, Llewhellin, Llewhelling, Lew, Whellin, Welling, Wellins isactually woven in Wales at the Cambrian Woollen Mill, weaving on the same site since 1830. This tartan differs from many traditional patterns in that the warp and weft differ, giving the finished worsted wool cloth more of a predominant stripe, vertically noticeable in the finished Kilt, or Cilt in Wales. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

• Scottish Register of Tartans: 2138
• Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5759

Thread count

DR/74 K4 DR7 K4 DR9 K40 LN2 K4 N/2

Palette

Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.

Nearest tartans

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.

1. Wanstall — ΔT 1.58
2. Brodie, Graeme (Personal) — ΔT 1.70
3. Moulin — ΔT 1.76
4. Klappert Original (Odsherred, Denmark) (Personal) — ΔT 1.78
5. Racing Stewart (Stealth) — ΔT 1.78
6. Jack, John (Fife) (Personal) — ΔT 1.79
7. Potts (Personal) — ΔT 1.81
8. Little of Morton Rigg Red (Personal) — ΔT 1.85
9. Griffiths Welsh Name Tartan Tartan Number: 5733. Earliest known date: 2002 The tartan for this Welsh surname and its variation, Griffith, is actually woven in Wales at the Cambrian Woollen Mill, weaving on the same site since 1830. This tartan differs from many traditional patterns in that the warp and weft differ, giving the finished worsted wool cloth more of a predominant stripe, vertically noticeable in the finished Kilt, or Cilt in Wales. Available from Wales Tartan Centres in Swansea See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.90
10. Verdon — ΔT 1.94

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 14299 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.

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