Unidentified #61

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 BBGBRBRB.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4262

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
1996 (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

DB/12 DBi4 G20 DB12 R36 DB4 R4 DB/8

One full sett is 180 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DB#00008C #00008Coklch(28.9% 0.200 264.1)
DB#000064 #000064oklch(22.7% 0.158 264.1)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)

Sample pattern

DB/12 DBi4 G20 DB12 R36 DB4 R4 DB/8 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.

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