Brides Plaid

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 RWWBWGBWBWWWBWBWBWBWBWBWWWBWRRW.

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

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 31 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=350

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
1720 (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

R/8 W2 LB4 DP8 W2 G4 DB16 W2 DP4 LB4 W2 LB4 DP4 W2 DP32 W2 DP12 W2 DP12 W2 DP32 W2 DP4 LB4 W2 LB4 DP4 W2 R16 Ri12 W/2

One full sett is 414 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
R#FF6666 #FF6666oklch(70.4% 0.187 23.2)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
R#C80000 #C80000oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

R/8 W2 LB4 DP8 W2 G4 DB16 W2 DP4 LB4 W2 LB4 DP4 W2 DP32 W2 DP12 W2 DP12 W2 DP32 W2 DP4 LB4 W2 LB4 DP4 W2 R16 Ri12 W/2 tartan

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.

Brides Plaid Artifact TartanBrides PlaidMackintosh #7groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s31/r4w1lb2dp4w1g2db8w1dp2lb2w1lb2dp2w1dp16w1dp6w1dp6w1dp16w1dp2lb2w1lb2dp2w1r8ri6w1x2r5221030-ri7019024/

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