Unidentified Cant #04
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 BWGWRWGWRBWBRWRWRWRBWBRWGWRWGWBGWGBWRBWBRWRWRWRWRBWBRWBGWGBWRWRWBGWGBWRBWBRWRWRWR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 81 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4282
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
- 1960 (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: 4282
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5727
Thread count
Ri/28 W6 Ri8 W6 Ri28 W4 R8 DB4 W4 DB4 R8 W4 DBi6 DG4 W4 DG4 DBi6 W4 Ri20 W6 Ri20 W4 DBi6 DG4 W4 DG4 DBi6 W4 R8 DB4 W4 DB4 R8 W4 Ri28 W6 Ri8 W6 Ri28 W4 R8 DB4 W4 DB4 R8 W4 DBi22 DG8 W4 DG8 DBi22 W4 DG8 W4 R8 W4 DG8 W4 R18 DB8 W4 DB8 R18 W4 Ri22 W4 Ri22 W4 R18 DB8 W4 DB8 R18 W4 DG8 W4 R8 W4 DG8 W4 DBi/18
One full sett is 1338 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #A00048 #A00048 | oklch(45.4% 0.182 5.3) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
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/s81/ri14w3ri4w3ri14w2r4db2w2db2r4w2dbi3dg2w2dg2dbi3w2ri10w3ri10w2dbi3dg2w2dg2dbi3w2r4db2w2db2r4w2ri14w3ri4w3ri14w2r4db2w2db2r4w2dbi11dg4w2dg4dbi11w2dg4w2r4w2dg4w2r9db4w2db4r9w2ri11w2ri11w2r9db4w2db4r9w2dg-h54630e7daf3d593c/