West of Wells (Personal)
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 GKBKBKBBW.
Part of the West of Wells tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10012
Provenance
Earliest known date: Mar. 2009 This sett is based on the Roxburghshire tartan because the Barony of Wells based in Jedburgh now belongs to Mr Bryce L. West.The chosen colours are the traditional navy and green often seen in tartans such as the Black Watch with the addition of a second blue for extra depth. The silver grey was a special request from Mr West. Exclusively designed by Kinloch Anderson. Restricted availability. Please contact Kinloch Anderson regarding use.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Mar. 2009 — West of Wells (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
This sett is based on the Roxburghshire tartan because the Barony of Wells based in Jedburgh now belongs to Mr Bryce L. West.The chosen colours are the traditional navy and green often seen in tartans such as the Black Watch with the addition of a second blue for extra depth. The silver grey was a special request from Mr West. Exclusively designed by Kinloch Anderson. Restricted availability. Please contact Kinloch Anderson regarding use. The responsibility for any development of this tartan has been given to Kinloch Anderson. - undated — West of Wells Personal Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- Mar. 2009 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
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Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 10012
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10012
Thread count
DG/56 K4 DB6 K22 DB6 K4 DB34 DBi8 LB/4
One full sett is 228 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #1C1C50 #1C1C50 | oklch(26.2% 0.093 277.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.08 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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.
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