Paisley Fancy Reduced

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 BKBKBKBKGKGKGKGKGRGRWRKRKRKRKRKGKG.

Sourced from weddslist. It is a 34 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Weddslist
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/weddslist/data.csv
data date
2016-11-17 (dataset default)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Weddslist
    the living privately compiled reference
  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

Thread count

DB/8 K2 DB3 K2 DB2 K3 DB2 K11 G2 K4 G3 K3 G4 K2 G5 K2 G55 R4 G11 R11 W4 R66 K2 R5 K2 R4 K3 R3 K4 R2 K11 G15 K2 Y/4

One full sett is 520 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

DB/8 K2 DB3 K2 DB2 K3 DB2 K11 G2 K4 G3 K3 G4 K2 G5 K2 G55 R4 G11 R11 W4 R66 K2 R5 K2 R4 K3 R3 K4 R2 K11 G15 K2 Y/4 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 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.

Unidentified (Paisley)UnidentifiedHay & Leith #2Goldstraw (Personal)StewartStuart/Stewart of ArdshielHay or LeithSobieski-StewartLeith (Hay)Hong Kong Police Pipe Bandgroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s34/db8k2db3k2db2k3db2k11g2k4g3k3g4k2g5k2g55r4g11r11w4r66k2r5k2r4k3r3k4r2k11g15k2y4/

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