Hebrides South Uist #4
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 BGRBRBWBRBRBRBRBRGRBRBRBRBRBR.
Part of the Hebrides South Uist 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=1671
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
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
- 1730 (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: 1671
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1954
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1954
Thread count
R/8 DB48 R4 DB2 R16 DB2 R6 DB48 R6 DB4 R4 G14 R4 DB4 R6 DB48 R4 DB2 R16 DB2 R4 DB48 W2 DB4 R4 DB4 R4 G4 DB/4
One full sett is 640 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as DB/4 G4 R4 DB4 R4 DB4 W2 DB48 R4 DB2 R16 DB2 R4 DB48 R6 DB4 R4 G14 R4 DB4 R6 DB48 R6 DB2 R16 DB2 R4 DB48 R8 DB48 R4 DB2 R16 DB2 R6 DB48 R6 DB4 R4 G14 R4 DB4 R6 DB48 R4 DB2 R16 DB2 R4 DB48 W2 DB4 R4 DB4 R4 G/4 — 1272 threads; it folds to the canonical 640-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
ID: /variants/s29/r4db24r2db1r8db1r3db24r3db2r2g7r2db2r3db24r2db1r8db1r2db24w1db2r2db2r2g2db2~x2/