Ritch Family Tartan
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 RWRWRWWWBWBWWWGGWGGYRWRYGWGGGWWWWWGGGWGWRWRWBWWGWGWGWWBWRWWWRW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 62 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1698
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1847 An 'Old Superfine Tartan Sett'. Speculation that this sett was designed for weaving in silk seems unlikely. (STS archive)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1847 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
R/12 W4 R6 W4 R40 W4 LB12 W4 DP20 W4 DP20 W4 LB12 W4 DG20 G8 W4 G8 DG20 LR4 R28 W4 R28 LR4 DG6 W4 DG4 Y4 DG4 W4 LB8 W4 LB8 W4 DG4 Y4 DG4 W4 DG6 W4 R28 W4 R28 W4 DP20 LB4 W4 Y8 W4 G8 W4 Y8 W4 LB4 DP20 W4 R40 W4 LB12 W4 R28 W/2
One full sett is 1186 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s62/r6w2r3w2r20w2lb6w2dp10w2dp10w2lb6w2dg10g4w2g4dg10lr2r14w2r14lr2dg3w2dg2y2dg2w2lb4w2lb4w2dg2y2dg2w2dg3w2r14w2r14w2dp10lb2w2y4w2g4w2y4w2lb2dp10w2r20w2lb6w2r14w1x2dg1806142-g2408144/