Patterson, William J.M. American Personal Tartan
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 BBBWBBBWBGGR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=10129
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2009 A personal tartan for the Patterson family. Named after the designer's grandfather, William John Magee Patterson, who took the Patterson family across the ocean to the Americas. Designed by Jane Patterson using colours which symbolise her Irish and Scottish descent.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 2009 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DB/18 N6 DB4 W4 DB18 N12 DB6 W6 DB6 G36 DG16 R/4
One full sett is 250 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #38409C #38409C | oklch(42.1% 0.148 274.4) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #5C6428 #5C6428 | oklch(48.3% 0.084 116.0) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s12/db9n3db2w2db9n6db3w3db3g18dg8r2x2db1706275-g1903114/