Ritch (Fashion)

March 18, 2023 ⌗ Edit this in the TTD

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 RWRWRWWWBWBWWWGGWGGWRWRWGWGGGWWWWWGGGWGWRWRWBWWGWGWGWWBWRWWWRW.

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

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 62 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1698

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: 1800 (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): 1698

Thread count

R/6 W2 R3 W2 R20 W2 LB6 W2 DP10 W2 DP10 W2 LB6 W2 DG10 G4 W2 G4 DG10 W2 R14 W2 R14 W2 DG3 W2 DG2 Y2 DG2 W2 LB4 W2 LB4 W2 DG2 Y2 DG2 W2 DG3 W2 R14 W2 R14 W2 DP10 LB2 W2 Y4 W2 G4 W2 Y4 W2 LB2 DP10 W2 R20 W2 LB6 W2 R14 W/1

One full sett is 593 threads.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
DG	`#053819` #053819	oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
DP	`#4B0B4F` #4B0B4F	oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
G	`#008B2A` #008B2A	oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
LB	`#B5BBDE` #B5BBDE	oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
R	`#D60020` #D60020	oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W	`#F7F7F7` #F7F7F7	oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y	`#8B6E00` #8B6E00	oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

R/6 W2 R3 W2 R20 W2 LB6 W2 DP10 W2 DP10 W2 LB6 W2 DG10 G4 W2 G4 DG10 W2 R14 W2 R14 W2 DG3 W2 DG2 Y2 DG2 W2 LB4 W2 LB4 W2 DG2 Y2 DG2 W2 DG3 W2 R14 W2 R14 W2 DP10 LB2 W2 Y4 W2 G4 W2 Y4 W2 LB2 DP10 W2 R20 W2 LB6 W2 R14 W/1 tartan

Compared to the master

This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.

Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.32 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).

this sett (top) woven against the master sett (bottom) — One weave of this sett against the master sett ★, split on the diagonal: a shared proportion runs seamlessly across it with only the shades shifting; a different proportion breaks on it.

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

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593

1162

1186

1186

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/r6w2r3w2r20w2lb6w2dp10w2dp10w2lb6w2dg10g4w2g4dg10w2r14w2r14w2dg3w2dg2y2dg2w2lb4w2lb4w2dg2y2dg2w2dg3w2r14w2r14w2dp10lb2w2y4w2g4w2y4w2lb2dp10w2r20w2lb6w2r14w1/