Aberdeen
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 GWRRWRRWWWBRRWRRBWKGKWBRRWRRBWBWWWBWKGWGKWBWWWBWBRRWRRBWKGKWBRRWRRBWWWRRWRRWGKWRRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 82 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=13
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
- 1782 (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: 13
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1801
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1801
Thread count
G/8 W2 Ri12 R6 W2 R6 Ri12 W2 LB20 W4 DP6 Ri16 R6 W4 R6 Ri16 DP6 W4 K24 G8 K24 W4 DP6 Ri16 R6 W4 R6 Ri16 DP6 W4 DP12 LB8 W4 LB8 DP12 W4 K32 G8 W4 G8 K32 W4 DP12 LB8 W4 LB8 DP12 W4 DP6 Ri16 R6 W4 R6 Ri16 DP6 W4 K24 G8 K24 W4 DP6 Ri16 R6 W4 R6 Ri16 DP6 W4 LB20 W2 Ri12 R6 W2 R6 Ri12 W2 G8 K32 W4 Ri46 R6 W/4
One full sett is 1580 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| R | #A00048 #A00048 | oklch(45.4% 0.182 5.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s82/g4w1ri6r3w1r3ri6w1lb10w2dp3ri8r3w2r3ri8dp3w2k12g4k12w2dp3ri8r3w2r3ri8dp3w2dp6lb4w2lb4dp6w2k16g4w2g4k16w2dp6lb4w2lb4dp6w2dp3ri8r3w2r3ri8dp3w2k12g4k12w2dp3ri8r3w2r3ri8dp3w2lb10w1ri6r3w1r3ri6w1g4k16w2ri2-h9a2519dbca078ee2/