Wardlaw
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 KBKBBRGKBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4902
Provenance
Earliest known date: May 2005 A new design for the Clan Wardlaw. A darker more muted version of this tartan is woven for kilts. The pattern remains the same.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/2005 — Wardlaw (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Diane Wardlaw of the Clan Wardlaw Association [www.clanwardlaw.com] and Maxine Scott of The House of Tartan. The ground colour of purple is for 'the many royal connections the Wardlaws have had through history.' A muted version of the Wardlaw tartan is also available. The Wardlaw tartan is available from The House of Tartan. - August 2005 — Wardlaw (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Diane Wardlaw of the Clan Wardlaw Association [www.clanwardlaw.com] and developed for weaving by the House of Tartan, Comrie, Perthshire. The ground colour of purple is for "the many royal connections the Wardlaws have had through history." - May 2005 — Wardlaw Clan 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
- 01/08/2005 (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: 4902
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6600
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3180
Thread count
K/8 DP60 K6 DP4 DB4 R4 G24 K6 DB36 R/6
One full sett is 302 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s10/k4dp30k3dp2db2r2g12k3db18r3~x2/