Lasting
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 WBWGWYWBWYWGWBWBWRWRGRW.
Part of the Lasting tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 23 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2055
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1800 — Lasting (register-of-tartans, record)
1819 KPB. No-one knows why it is called this - the assumption is made that it was a Clan/Family tartan but there is no proof of that. Sindex Notes: Typical of Wilson's 'Old Superfine Setts', this is of extremely complex design. This tartan mentioned by Telford Dunbar in his 1962 'History of Highland Dress' (Page145) when he states that it appeared in William Wilson's stock list in 1800. - 1800 — Lasting (Clan?) (tartans-authority, record)
1819 Key Pattern Book. No-one knows why it is called this - the assumption is made that it was a Clan/Family tartan but there is no proof of that. Sindex Notes: Typical of Wilson's 'Old Superfine Setts' this is of extremely complex design. Count checked by EBW in June 2008 against original 1819 KPB.
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
- 1800 (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: 2055
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1789
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1789
Thread count
W/16 DP14 W4 Y12 W4 LY8 W4 DP8 W4 LY8 W4 DG38 W4 DP14 W4 DP14 W4 R38 W8 R6 Y4 R6 W/4
One full sett is 440 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| Y | #789484 #789484 | oklch(64.0% 0.040 160.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #E8C000 #E8C000 | oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7) |
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/s23/w8dp7w2y6w2ly4w2dp4w2ly4w2dg19w2dp7w2dp7w2r19w4r3y2r3w2x2y2602166-ly3307090/