Angotta
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 GBGBGBGBGBRBR.
Part of the Angotta tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10038
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2009 Designed by Scottish Tartans Authority for the armigerous Donald Paul Angotta of the USA, based on an unidentified 19th century sett. The yellow and blue are the major colours of the Angotta arms granted in South Africa in 2001 and the red highlights are from the helm in that coat of arms.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 28/03/2009 — Angotta (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan is for the use of all of the name of Angotta. Designed in March 2009 by Brian Wilton of the Scottish Tartans Authority for the armigerous Donald Paul Angotta of the USA and based on an unidentified 19th century sett. The yellow and blue are the major colours of the Angotta arms granted in South Africa in 2001 and the red highlights are from the helm in that coat of arms. - 2009 — Angotta Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 28/03/2009 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 10038
Thread count
DY/12 DB2 DY2 DB2 DY2 DB10 DY4 DB10 DY8 DB4 R2 DB80 R/2
One full sett is 266 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
Sample pattern
ID: /variants/s13/dy6db1dy1db1dy1db5dy2db5dy4db2r1db40r1~x2/