Langston (Personal)
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 KGWGWGKGWGKRGRGRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2045
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1999 The Langston family tartan was designed for LCDR Michael W. Langston of Greenville, USA, by Blair Urquhart of the House of Tartan. The light blue colour is described as Teal.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1999 — Langston (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in 1999 by Blair Urquhart of House of Tartan, Perthshire for Michael W. Langston, Captain USN and the Langston family of Greenville, USA. - 1999 — Langston (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Designed in 1999 by Blair Urquhart of House of Tartan, Perthshire for Lt Cdr Michael W. Langston and the Langston family of Greenville, USA. - 1999 — Langston Family 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
- 1999 (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: 2045
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4214
Thread count
K/28 G4 LB28 G6 LB28 G4 K28 G28 W4 G28 K28 R4 G4 R20 Y8 R20 G4 R/4
One full sett is 524 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/k14g2lb14g3lb14g2k14g14w2g14k14r2g2r10y4r10g2r2~x2/