Ulster (Peat) (District
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 GKGKGKGKRK.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1196
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1590-1650 — Ulster (Peat) (District (tartans-authority, record)
Interpretation of the fabric dug out in1956 from an earth bank on the farm of a Mr William Dixon in the townland of Flanders, near Dungiven, County Londonderry. The peaty soil had preserved the material which was analysed as being ca end of 16th C. Parts of the fabric weren't quite so faded which allowed another reconstruction of the original colours - see Ulster, Red. Count said (STS notes) to be from A & W Law Ltd., Darn and Lydgate Mills, Littleborough. Original count extrapolated by Audrey Henshall from National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh. Lochcarron sample. - 01/01/1600 — Ulster (Peat) (register-of-tartans, record)
Interpretation of the fabric dug out in 1956 from an earth bank on the farm of a Mr William Dixon in the townland of Flanders, near Dungiven, County Londonderry. The peaty soil had preserved the material which was analysed as being ca end of 16th C. Parts of the fabric weren't quite so faded which allowed another reconstruction of the original colours - see Ulster, Red. Count said (Scottish Tartans Society notes) to be from A & W Law Ltd, Darn and Lydgate Mills, Littleborough. Original count extrapolated by Audrey Henshall from National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh. Lochcarron sample.
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
- 1590-1650 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 4196
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1196
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1196
Thread count
Y/56 K4 Y56 K4 Y4 K4 DY58 K4 R4 K/4
One full sett is 336 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/y28k2y28k2y2k2dy29k2r2k2~x2/