Wilson's No.234
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 KR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 2 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4761
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — Wilson's No.234 (register-of-tartans, record)
William Wilson and Sons of Bannockburn was a weaving firm founded c.1770 near Stirling. The archives relating to this business are held by various institutions including the National Museums Scotland and the Scottish Tartans Society. A contemporary version of this tartan (threadcount Red 120, Black 14) has been created by Nick Carpellotti and was woven by Lochcarron of Scotland in Nov 2012. Nick wanted a personal tartan similar to the 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper tartan (STR #3540). A woven sample of this contemporary version of Wilson's No.234 is preserved in the National Records of Scotland. - undated — Wilson's, No 234 (weddslist, 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
- 1819 (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: 4761
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1188
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1188
Thread count
R/16 K/6
One full sett is 22 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s2/r8k3~x2/