Unidentified #52
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 KWKRKRKRKRWRKRKRKRKBGBGBGBGBKRKRKRKRWRKRKRKRKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 48 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4253
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
- 2002 (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: 4253
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4415
Thread count
LB/36 K12 LB72 K68 R2 K12 R8 K8 R12 K4 R14 W6 R14 K4 R12 K8 R8 K12 R2 K68 DP20 G16 DP16 G20 DP192 G20 DP16 G16 DP20 K68 R2 K12 R8 K8 R12 K4 R14 W6 R14 K4 R12 K8 R8 K12 R2 K68 LB72 K/12
One full sett is 2080 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s25/dp96g10dp8g8dp10k34r1k6r4k4r6k2r7w3r7k2r6k4r4k6r1k34lb36k6lb18~x2/