Ritchie

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 BWBWBBWBGBBBW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3514

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/2002 — Ritchie (register-of-tartans, record)
    No details known.
  • pre 2002 — Ritchie (Name?) (tartans-authority, record)
    No further details. Assumed to be name.
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
2002 (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

DR/6 LB4 DR6 LB4 DR28 DB12 LB6 DB12 G32 DR12 T12 DR12 LB/6

One full sett is 292 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#00879F #00879Foklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)

Sample pattern

DR/6 LB4 DR6 LB4 DR28 DB12 LB6 DB12 G32 DR12 T12 DR12 LB/6 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

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