Callanish (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 YRBGRGRBGRY.

Part of the Callanish tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/10393/ — retired · Internet Archive copy

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
pre 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; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references)
  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

LY/4 O4 N4 G4 O12 G6 O6 N6 G4 O4 LY/4

One full sett is 108 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
N#5C5C5C #5C5C5Coklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9)
O#888888 #888888oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

LY/4 O4 N4 G4 O12 G6 O6 N6 G4 O4 LY/4 tartan

ID: /variants/s11/ly2o2n2g2o6g3o3n3g2o2ly2x2o62-n47/

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