Ribbons of Hope

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 WGGRWRRWWW.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=8436

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Tartans Authority
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
data date
28th June 2011 (this record)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

LP/6 W6 LP16 R10 Ri20 W8 Rii24 Gi8 G12 W/6

One full sett is 220 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
G#0098A0 #0098A0oklch(61.8% 0.105 201.4)
R#D05054 #D05054oklch(60.2% 0.162 21.5)
G#289C18 #289C18oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
LP#E4A6DB #E4A6DBoklch(80.0% 0.100 331.6)
R#E87878 #E87878oklch(70.0% 0.139 21.2)
R#C80000 #C80000oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2)

Sample pattern

LP/6 W6 LP16 R10 Ri20 W8 Rii24 Gi8 G12 W/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.

ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
220
sett
206
sett

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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ID: /variants/s10/w3g6gi4rii12w4ri10r5lp8w3lp3x2g2408144-gi2504202-rii2806019-ri2406019-r2109032/

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