Vipont (Yellow line)
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 GKGBKGR.
Part of the Vipont tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4464
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1930 — Vipont (Yellow line) (register-of-tartans, record)
Count taken from a woven sample in the MacGregor Hastie collection. He is said to have obtained it from J Wright, Edinburgh, who apparently designed it c1930 for the Vipont family. Scottish Tartans Society now own the sample. This set has yellow in place of white. Designed by a J. Wright for the Vipont family. No further details. - 1930 — Vipont (Yellow line) (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
STS notes: This count comes from a sample in the MacGregor Hastie collection. He is said to have obtained it from J.Wright of Edinburgh who apparently designed it circa 1930 for the Vipont family. STS now own the sample. #1491 has white in place of yellow and blue in place of black. Designed by a J Wright for the Vipont family. No further details. See Vipont #2.
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
- 1930 (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: 4464
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1491
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1491
Thread count
R/6 G28 K4 B4 G28 K72 DY/6
One full sett is 284 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s7/dy3k36g14b2k2g14r3~x2/