Munster
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 RGKGKWGKRWGWGWRW.
Part of the Munster tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3052
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Munster (register-of-tartans, record)
One of the Irish district tartans produced in 1997 by Lochcarron to acknowledge the early historical and cultural links between the Scots and the Irish. Munster covers the southwest counties of Ireland and encompasses the principal cities of Cork, Limerick and Waterford. Blue is too light. Woven sample. - 1997 — Munster (District) (tartans-authority, record)
One of the Irish district tartans produced in 1997 by Lochcarron to acknowledge the early historical and cultural links between the Scots and the Irish. Munster covers the southwest counties of Ireland and encompasses the principal cities of Cork, Limerick and Waterford. Blue is too light. Woven sample.
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
- 1997 (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: 3052
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4061
Thread count
LB/8 R4 LB6 G2 LB2 G4 LB36 R2 K24 DG42 LB2 K6 DG2 K4 DG8 R/4
One full sett is 300 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s16/lb4r2lb3g1lb1g2lb18r1k12dg21lb1k3dg1k2dg4r2~x2/