Craig (Paisley)
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 BKBKWKWBWBWBWWKGKWWBWBWBWKWKBK.
Part of the Craig tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 30 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=786
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
- 1880 (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: 786
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6602
Thread count
B/100 K18 B6 K5 W4 K1 W60 B4 W5 B24 W4 B4 LB6 W6 K1 Y4 K1 W6 LB6 B4 W4 B24 W5 B4 W60 K1 W4 K6 B6 K/18
One full sett is 684 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s30/b100k18b6k5w4k1w60b4w5b24w4b4lb6w6k1y4k1w6lb6b4w4b24w5b4w60k1w4k6b6k18/