Largs (1981) (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 BRBWBRBRBRBRW.
Part of the Largs tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=478
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1981 — Largs (1981) (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Per "District Tartans" designed by Sidney Samuels 1981, but swatch handwoven by Marcella Castro in 1986. "District Tartans" calls for threads 1 & 11 to be royal blue, but this does not appear in that book's illustration nor in the swatch. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. - 01/01/1983 — Largs (register-of-tartans, record)
Per 'District Tartans' designed by Sidney Samuels 1981, but swatch handwoven by Marcella Castro (a Handloom Weaver) in 1986. 'District Tartans' calls for threads 1 & 11 to be royal blue, but this does not appear in that book's illustration nor in the swatch. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. created for the town and officially adopted in 1981. There is also a dress version.
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
- 1981 (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: 2051
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 478
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 478
Thread count
DB/4 R4 DB44 W6 DB5 O4 DB3 O8 DB3 O16 DB4 R24 W/4
One full sett is 250 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s13/db4r4db44w6db5o4db3o8db3o16db4r24w4/