Virginia (USA)

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 BGBGBGBWBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBWBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGGGGGGGGGGRBRGGGGGGGGGG.

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

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 80 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4466

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
2017-01-06 (dataset default)
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

DG/16 G1 DG1 G1 DG1 G1 DG1 G1 DG1 G8 O16 DP32 O16 G8 DG1 G1 DG1 G1 DG1 G1 DG1 G1 DG16 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T16 LB32 T16 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T16 LB32 T16 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T/1

One full sett is 597 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#1870A4 #1870A4oklch(52.2% 0.113 241.2)
LG#82D67A #82D67Aoklch(80.1% 0.150 142.2)
T#1474B4 #1474B4oklch(54.0% 0.129 245.1)
G#289C18 #289C18oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6)
DG#006818 #006818oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)

Sample pattern

DG/16 G1 DG1 G1 DG1 G1 DG1 G1 DG1 G8 O16 DP32 O16 G8 DG1 G1 DG1 G1 DG1 G1 DG1 G1 DG16 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T16 LB32 T16 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T16 LB32 T16 DG1 T1 DG1 T1 DG1 T/1 tartan

Nearest tartan variants

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.

ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
597
sett
317
sett
520
sett

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.

Virginia (Fashion)Highland Mistgroundcomplexity

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