New Loudoun

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 GWYYRKRYYWGWGBWGWR.

Part of the New Loudoun tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3113

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
2002 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

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

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  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

R/100 W4 DY10 LB4 DB4 DY10 W4 G24 W4 LR4 LO4 R10 K4 R10 LO4 LR4 W4 DY/18

One full sett is 334 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#000048 #000048oklch(18.2% 0.126 264.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
LR#FF9C97 #FF9C97oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2)
LY#A08C50 #A08C50oklch(64.5% 0.083 91.5)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

R/100 W4 DY10 LB4 DB4 DY10 W4 G24 W4 LR4 LO4 R10 K4 R10 LO4 LR4 W4 DY/18 tartan

Nearest tartan variants

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.

ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
334
sett
166
sett
83
sett
296
sett
166
sett

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.

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