Watertown Library Assoc.
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 GKGKGKGKGKGKGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4500
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — Watertown Library Assoc. (register-of-tartans, record)
Great Scot (Peter Wilson) have had this woven for their customer - probably by Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver. Based on the MacLachlan tartan with the yellow switched to a moss green. Woven sample. What has been stipulated as moss green is in fact a mixture of very pale green and gray in alternated single threads just in the weft which gives a mottled effect. The resultant threadcount is too long to record in this system, comprising as it does, over 160 colour changes. - pre 2004 — Watertown Library Assoc. (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Great Scot (Peter Wilson) have had this woven for their customer - probably by Fraser & Kirkbright of Vancouver. Based on the MacLachlan tartan with the yellow switched to a moss green. Woven sample. What has been stipulated as moss green is in fact a mixture of very pale green and gray in alternating single threads just in the weft which gives a mottled effect. The resultant threadcount is too long to record in this system, comprising as it does, over 160 colour changes.
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
- 2004 (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: 4500
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6268
Thread count
Y/8 K4 Y62 K16 Y4 K54 Y4 K8 Y4 K54 Y4 K16 Y62 K/4
One full sett is 596 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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 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/s8/k4y2k27y2k8y31k2y4~x2/