Four Quarters (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 WBWGWBWBWBWRWBWGWBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 19 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7427
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2007 October While drawn from old earth religions, this was designed without any beliefe system in mind but to tie the greater whole together. Yellow - air/east. Red - fire/south. Blue - water/west. Green-earth/north. White - center/spirit & purple heart.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- December 2007 — Four Quarters (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
While drawn from old earth religions, this was designed without any belief system in mind but to tie the greater whole together. Yellow - air/east. Red - fire/south. Blue - water/west. Green-earth/north. White - center/spirit & purple heart. - 2007 — Four Quarters Personal Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Four Quarters (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
While drawn from old earth religions, this was designed without any beliefe system in mind but to tie the greater whole together. Yellow - air/east. Red - fire/south. Blue - water/west. Green-earth/north. White - center/spirit & purple heart.
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
- December 2007 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5499
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7427
Thread count
W/14 DP14 W2 G26 W2 DP4 W2 DB28 W2 DP4 W2 R22 W2 DP4 W2 Y14 W2 DP4 W/14
One full sett is 300 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s19/w7dp7w1g13w1dp2w1db14w1dp2w1r11w1dp2w1y7w1dp2w7~x2/