Walter (Personal)

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 RWGGBGWGBGGW.

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

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4488

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/1994 — Walter (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
    Personal tartan for a James Gordon Walter and his family.
  • pre 1998 — Walter (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
    Personal tartan for a James Gordon Walter and his family.
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
1994 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

R/48 W6 Y8 DG36 DP36 G6 LB8 G6 DP36 DG36 Y8 W/6

One full sett is 426 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

R/48 W6 Y8 DG36 DP36 G6 LB8 G6 DP36 DG36 Y8 W/6 tartan

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.

WalterMayo County Crest (Fashion)Meath, CountyFalardeau-Murphy (Canada) (Personal)Devon 2000Devon 2000Béguinot, Stéphane (Personal)Falardeau-Murphy (Canada) (Personal)Unnamed No 14 TartanMeathgroundcomplexity

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