Watkins 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 GBGBBGBGGGBGBWBBBGBBBWBGBGGGBGBBGBGG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 36 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4501
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
- 2004 (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: 4501
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6169
Thread count
G/2 DG2 DB5 DG4 DB10 T15 DG10 DR12 DG6 G4 DG6 DR12 DG10 T20 LB2 DB2 T18 DB1 G2 DB1 T18 DB2 LB2 T20 DG10 DR12 DG6 G4 DG6 DR12 DG10 T15 DB10 DG4 DB5 DG/2
One full sett is 560 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| T | #1474B4 #1474B4 | oklch(54.0% 0.129 245.1) |
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| T | #2474D0 #2474D0 | oklch(56.1% 0.161 255.0) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
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/s19/g2dg2db5dg4db10t15dg10dr12dg6g4dg6dr12dg10t20lb2db2t18db1g2~t2205244/