Unidentified Plaid arisaid
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 RBRKWKRWRBRBKGKGKBRBRWRKWKRWBRWRBRWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 36 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4357
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — Unidentified Plaid arisaid (register-of-tartans, record)
... continues... W32. Scottish Tartans Society archive. W32 refers to the thread count of an ariasaid owned by Mrs R.H. Haake, Leaburgh, Oregon. The count is from the edge of the centre. - undated — Unidentified, Plaid arisaid (weddslist, record)
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
- 2017-01-06 (dataset default)
- 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: 4357
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 578
Thread count
R/12 W32 R12 DB2 R12 W32 R12 DB18 W280 R110 K4 W8 K4 R32 W40 R32 DB12 R4 DB54 K8 Y8 K12 Y8 K8 DB54 R4 DB12 R32 W40 R32 K4 W8 K4 R110 DB2 R/12
One full sett is 2116 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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 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.
ID: /variants/s36/r6w16r6db1r6w16r6db9w140r55k2w4k2r16w20r16db6r2db27k4y4k6y4k4db27r2db6r16w20r16k2w4k2r55db1r6~x2/