Welsh National
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 GRGWGRGR.
Part of the Welsh National tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4597
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1967 — Welsh National (register-of-tartans, record)
According to 'World Tartans' the decision to adopt a tartan was taken by a Welsh society formed in Cardiff in 1967. Its aim was to emphasise the Welsh bonds with other Celtic countries, most of whom appeared to already have their own tartan. Colours represent the Welsh flag - red dragon on a green and white background. Nomindex notes 'Made for Frasers of Perth. Specimen from D.M. Richards 1967. D.C. Dalgliesh specimen 1968. Colours named as crimson and sage green.' Lochcarron swatch. - 1967 — Welsh National (District) (tartans-authority, record)
According to 'World Tartans' the decision to adopt a tartan was taken by a Welsh society formed in Cardiff in 1967. Its aim was to emphasise the Welsh bonds with other Celtic countries, most of whom appeared to already have their own tartan. Colours represent the Welsh flag - red dragon on a green and white background. Nomindex notes "Made for Frasers of Perth. Specimen from D.M.Richards 1967. D.C.Dalgliesh specimen 1968. Colours named as crimson and sage green." Lochcarron swatch.
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
- 1967 (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: 4597
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1523
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1523
Thread count
R/16 DG6 R8 DG88 W8 DG88 R8 DG/6
One full sett is 434 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s5/r8dg3r4dg44w4~x2/