Satisfashion Argyll

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 BYYBBYGYBYGYBBYYBY.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3658

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/02/2005 — Satisfashion Argyll (register-of-tartans, record)
    A soft and warm tartan for a Belgian clothing company called Argyll that trades with the UK and Scotland in particular, and which wishes to promote Scottish tartan.' Designed by Tommy Gemmell and woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. Woven sample.
  • 2005 Feb. — Satisfashion Argyll (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
    "A soft and warm tartan for a Belgian clothing company called Argyll that trades with the UK and Scotland in particular, and which wishes to promote Scottish tartan." Designed by Tommy Gemmell and woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. Woven sample.
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
01/02/2005 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

LY/10 DO6 LY46 LYi2 DO10 DR12 LY18 G54 LYi2 DO10 LYi2 G54 LY18 DR12 DO10 LYi2 LY46 DO/6

One full sett is 624 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
DO#412714 #412714oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7)
LY#BC8C00 #BC8C00oklch(66.8% 0.137 84.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
LY#A08858 #A08858oklch(63.7% 0.071 84.0)

Sample pattern

LY/10 DO6 LY46 LYi2 DO10 DR12 LY18 G54 LYi2 DO10 LYi2 G54 LY18 DR12 DO10 LYi2 LY46 DO/6 tartan

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.

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