Svanholm (Personal)
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 GKRKWKBKGWGKBKWKRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4050
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/11/2000 — Svanholm (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for Lars Svanholm from Gavle in the Gastrikland area of Sweden by the late Don Smith (2002) of Heraldic Graphics, Glasgow. The colours are based on the yellow and white plus the two shades of purple of the Styvmorsviol wild pansy. Estimated thread count for display purposes only. - 2001 — Svanholm (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed for Lars Svanholm from Gavle in the Gastrikland area of Sweden by the late Don Smith (2002?) of Heraldic Graphics, Glasgow. The colours are based on the yellow and white plus the two shades of purple of the Styvmorsviol wild pansy. Estimated thread count for display purposes only.
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
- 01/11/2000 (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: 4050
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4016
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2807
Thread count
Y/8 K2 M28 K2 W4 K2 DP56 K8 Y4 W6 Y4 K8 DP56 K2 W4 K2 M28 K/2
One full sett is 442 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| M | #CA047B #CA047B | oklch(55.0% 0.225 353.8) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/y4k1m14k1w2k1dp28k4y2w3~x2/