Unidentified Cant #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 GWGRGRGRGRWRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRGRWRGRGRGRGWGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 48 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5389
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
- 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: 5389
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3961
Thread count
LB/18 DY6 LB36 DY34 R2 DY6 R4 DY4 R6 DY2 R7 W3 R7 DY2 R6 DY4 R4 DY6 R2 DY34 O10 G4 O8 G6 O99 G6 O8 G4 O10 DY34 R2 DY6 R4 DY4 R6 DY2 R7 W3 R7 DY2 R6 DY4 R4 DY6 R2 DY34 LB36 DY/6
One full sett is 1022 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/o99g6o8g4o10dy34r2dy6r4dy4r6dy2r7w3r7dy2r6dy4r4dy6r2dy34lb36dy6lb18~g2408144/