Varrie
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 GWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10113
Provenance
Earliest known date: 20th Nov. 2009 Designed in remembrance of the designer's mother, Jean Alexander Varrie, and her Scottish heritage. The light blue represents the rivers crossed by the family, the medium blue represents the oceans crossed, yellow represents the land and mountains where they settled and white represents their peace and tranquility. All Varrie families may use this design.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 20/11/2009 — Varrie (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in remembrance of the designer's mother, Jean Alexander Varrie, and her Scottish heritage. The light blue represents the rivers crossed by the family, the medium blue represents the oceans crossed, yellow represents the land and mountains where they settled and white represents their peace and tranquility. All Varrie families may use this design. - 20th Nov. 2009 — Varrie (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed in remembrance of the designer's mother, Jean Alexander Varrie, and her Scottish heritage. All Varrie families can use this design. For use of all Varrie families - undated — Varrie Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 20/11/2009 (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: 10113
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10113
Thread count
LB/220 DB20 W20 Y/20
One full sett is 320 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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 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/s4/lb11db1w1y1~x20/