Weston 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 BBBKWKBB.
Part of the Weston tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=5777
Provenance
Earliest known date: Feb 2002 For their wedding.
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
- Feb 2002 (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
DB/40 DP40 K40 W10 K40 DP40 DB40 DBi/40
One full sett is 500 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DB | #002878 #002878 | oklch(31.5% 0.143 261.7) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s8/db4dp4k4w1k4dp4db4dbi4x10db2616276-dbi3114261/