Whitworth (Name)

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 BYBYBKBGRKRGBKGBYG.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 18 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=6052

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Tartans Authority
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
data date
pre 2003 (this record)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DB/120 LY4 DB4 LY4 DB10 K30 DB10 G40 R4 K6 R4 G40 DB10 K30 G10 DB40 LY4 G/8

One full sett is 628 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)

Sample pattern

DB/120 LY4 DB4 LY4 DB10 K30 DB10 G40 R4 K6 R4 G40 DB10 K30 G10 DB40 LY4 G/8 tartan

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.

StrachanSpirit of MorningsidePrestoungrange (Personal)Prestoungrange/Dolphinstoun/WillsCooper Family TartanCooperCraig (Personal)RankinAlexander-Johnstone (Personal)St. Lawrencegroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s18/db60ly2db2ly2db5k15db5g20r2k3r2g20db5k15g5db20ly2g4~x2/

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