Limerick, County

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 BBGBBBBBBYB.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2113

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/1996 — Limerick, County (register-of-tartans, record)
    One of a series of Irish District tartans designed by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar. These are not 'officially sanctioned' District tartans but have apparently proved popular and no doubt in time will be accepted as genuine District rather than Fashion tartans. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Designed for Macnaughtons of Pitlochry as a collection of trade tartans.
  • 1996 — Limerick, County (District) (tartans-authority, record)
    One of a series of Irish District tartans designed by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar. These were not 'officially sanctioned' District tartans but, like many of their historic district tartan predecessors have apparently proved popular enough to be regarded as 'District' rather than their original categorisation of 'Fashion'. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection.
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
1996 (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

DO/12 LY8 DO6 DB4 DO10 DB4 DO6 DB4 G28 DR6 DB/4

One full sett is 168 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
DO#412714 #412714oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7)

Sample pattern

DO/12 LY8 DO6 DB4 DO10 DB4 DO6 DB4 G28 DR6 DB/4 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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