Aberfeldy
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 WBKWBRBRKBGRGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5729
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2008 Designed by Heather Yellowley of Strathmore Woollen Company, Forfar, for the Aberfeldy & District Gaelic Choir. Originally designed for use by the choir in the 2008 MOD in Falkirk but intended for wider use afterwards as the Aberfeldy district tartan.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2008 — Aberfeldy (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Heather Yellowley of Strathmore Woollen Company, Forfar, for the Aberfeldy & District Gaelic Choir. Originally designed for use by the choir in the 2008 MOD in Falkirk but intended for wider use afterwards as the Aberfeldy district tartan. - August 2008 — Aberfeldy (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Heather Yellowley of Strathmore Woollen Company for the Aberfeldy & District Gaelic Choir for use in the 2008 MOD in Falkirk but intended for wider use afterwards as the Aberfeldy district tartan (launched as such on 31st July 2009). - 2008 — Aberfeldy District 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
- 2008 (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: 5729
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7748
Thread count
W/4 T4 K4 LB4 T64 R4 T4 R4 K26 T4 DG32 R4 DG4 W/4
One full sett is 324 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
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/w2dg2r2dg16t2k13r2t2r2t32lb2k2t2w2~x2/