Berwick-upon-Tweed (symmetric)
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 BRGRGRBKGKGKBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5380
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1981 — Berwick-upon-Tweed (symmetric) (register-of-tartans, record)
Result of a competition to design a tartan to mark the 500th anniversary of the town becoming attached to the English crown. The winner was Alison Wilkinson, a pupil at Berwick High School. The design was asymmetrical (see STR #255) but was later adapted to this symmetrical design. - 1982 — Berwick-upon-Tweed (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Result of a competition run by a local Berwick mill - Marygate Weavers - to design a tartan to mark the 500th anniversary of the town becoming attached to the English crown. The winner was Alison Wilkinson, a pupil at Berwick High School. The design as initially woven was asymmetrical but was later adapted to this symmetrical design probably because of greater commercial applications.
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
- 1981 (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: 5380
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3689
Thread count
DR/18 R10 DG4 R8 DG4 R10 N76 K10 DG4 K8 DG4 K10 DR16 LB/8
One full sett is 354 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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/s14/dr9r5dg2r4dg2r5n38k5dg2k4dg2k5dr8lb4~x2/