Delmarva

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 BBBGBBBRBBBGBBBRBRBRBBBBBBBRB.

Part of the Delmarva tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 29 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10158

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
05/02/2010 (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

DB/16 R4 DB4 N2 DB2 N2 DB2 N2 DB4 R4 DB12 O2 DB24 O2 DB12 N2 DB2 DY8 DB2 N2 DB4 R6 DB6 N2 DB2 DY4 DB2 N2 DB/16

One full sett is 276 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

DB/16 R4 DB4 N2 DB2 N2 DB2 N2 DB4 R4 DB12 O2 DB24 O2 DB12 N2 DB2 DY8 DB2 N2 DB4 R6 DB6 N2 DB2 DY4 DB2 N2 DB/16 tartan

ID: /variants/s29/db8r2db2n1db1n1db1n1db2r2db6o1db12o1db6n1db1dy4db1n1db2r3db3n1db1dy2db1n1db8~x2/

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