Aberdeen - 1819 (District)
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 WGKWBWWWBWBRRWRRBWKGKWBRRWRRBWWWRRWRRWGKWRRW.
Part of the Aberdeen tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 44 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1801
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 1782 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 1801
Thread count
W/4 G8 K32 W4 DP12 LB8 W4 LB8 DP12 W4 DP6 R16 Ri6 W4 Ri6 R16 DP6 W4 K24 G8 K24 W4 DP6 R16 Ri6 W4 Ri6 R16 DP6 W4 LB20 W2 R12 Ri6 W2 Ri6 R12 W2 G8 K32 W4 R46 Ri6 W/4
One full sett is 884 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #E87878 #E87878 | oklch(70.0% 0.139 21.2) |
| R | #D40000 #D40000 | oklch(54.6% 0.224 29.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s44/w2g4k16w2dp6lb4w2lb4dp6w2dp3r8ri3w2ri3r8dp3w2k12g4k12w2dp3r8ri3w2ri3r8dp3w2lb10w1r6ri3w1ri3r6w1g4k16w2r23ri3w2x2r2209032-ri2806019/