Spirit of Wales
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 BKBBBKBBBBBKBBBKBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3867
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2005 January Designed by Claire Donaldson of The House of Edgar for Dyfed Menswear, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. For the sole use of Dyfed Menswear.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
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
- 2005 (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: 3867
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6495
Thread count
DB/48 K4 DT2 DB4 DT2 K4 DT44 DP4 DT8 DP4 DT44 K4 DT2 DB4 DT2 K4 DB48 W/4
One full sett is 420 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DP | #440044 #440044 | oklch(27.1% 0.125 328.4) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #780078 #780078 | oklch(40.2% 0.185 328.4) |
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
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/s18/db24k2dt1db2dt1k2dt22dp2dt4dp2dt22k2dt1db2dt1k2db24w2x2db1204274-dp1607327/