Unidentified Plaid #11

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 BRBRBRWRBWBRBGBGBGBGWBWGW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 25 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4344

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
2017-01-06 (dataset default)
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

DB/4 Ri4 DB4 Ri4 DB12 Ri10 W4 Ri150 DB26 W10 DB18 R4 DB90 DY2 DB6 DY4 DB4 DY6 DB2 DY20 W4 DB20 LB4 DY28 LB/4

One full sett is 880 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
R#DC0000 #DC0000oklch(56.2% 0.230 29.2)
R#C82828 #C82828oklch(54.2% 0.196 26.8)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)

Sample pattern

DB/4 Ri4 DB4 Ri4 DB12 Ri10 W4 Ri150 DB26 W10 DB18 R4 DB90 DY2 DB6 DY4 DB4 DY6 DB2 DY20 W4 DB20 LB4 DY28 LB/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.

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.

Unidentified Plaid 5Unidentified #5Chinese ScottishUnidentified 22Red LichtieRed Lichtie (District)MacDonald of BoisdaleHolyrood (Chair)WhitworthMacDonald of Boisdalegroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s25/db2ri2db2ri2db6ri5w2ri75db13w5db9r2db45dy1db3dy2db2dy3db1dy10w2db10lb2dy14lb2x2ri2209032-r2208029/

© 2022 - 2026 · Tartan Dictionary · Powered by Hugo ·