Weait (2016)

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 BWBWBWBWBRBWBWBWBWBWBWBW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 24 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11599

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
01/08/2016 (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

T/12 LB12 DB14 LB4 DB4 LB4 DB14 LB12 T12 R4 T12 LB12 DB4 LB4 DB4 LB4 DB16 LB4 DB4 LB4 DB4 LB12 T12 W/4

One full sett is 368 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#3C82AF #3C82AFoklch(58.1% 0.099 239.8)
DB#1C1C50 #1C1C50oklch(26.2% 0.093 277.9)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

T/12 LB12 DB14 LB4 DB4 LB4 DB14 LB12 T12 R4 T12 LB12 DB4 LB4 DB4 LB4 DB16 LB4 DB4 LB4 DB4 LB12 T12 W/4 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
368
sett
364
sett
320
sett

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.

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