Shapiro (Personal)

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 KWWYWWYWYWYWYWYWYWWYWYWYWYWYWYWYWYWWY.

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

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 37 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4864

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

  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

K/32 LB4 LP4 LY4 LP20 LB8 LY12 LB20 LY12 LB20 LY8 LB20 LY8 LB20 LY4 LB64 LY4 LB20 LP8 LY28 LB20 LY20 LB12 LY20 LB12 LY20 LB12 LY20 LB8 LY20 LB4 LY56 LB6 LY20 LP12 LB8 LY/32

One full sett is 1180 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#00879F #00879Foklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
LY#BC8C00 #BC8C00oklch(66.8% 0.137 84.1)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LY#C4BC68 #C4BC68oklch(78.4% 0.107 103.7)
LP#E4A6DB #E4A6DBoklch(80.0% 0.100 331.6)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)

Sample pattern

K/32 LB4 LP4 LY4 LP20 LB8 LY12 LB20 LY12 LB20 LY8 LB20 LY8 LB20 LY4 LB64 LY4 LB20 LP8 LY28 LB20 LY20 LB12 LY20 LB12 LY20 LB12 LY20 LB8 LY20 LB4 LY56 LB6 LY20 LP12 LB8 LY/32 tartan

Nearest tartan variants

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.

ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
1180
sett
1180
sett

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.

Shapiro (Personal)groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s37/k16lb2lp2ly2lp10lb4ly6lb10ly6lb10ly4lb10ly4lb10ly2lb32ly2lb10lp4ly14lb10ly10lb6ly10lb6ly10lb6ly10lb4ly10lb2ly28lb3ly10lp6lb4ly16x2ly7811105/

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