Fiddes - 2007 (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 BGGKBKBGG.
Part of the Fiddes tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/7618/ — retired · Internet Archive copy
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2008 — Fiddes - 2007 (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Lochcarron sample. Based on #836 Fiddes Rock & wheel but with the red replaced by dark green. Designed and woven for a Jason Dalley of Wiltshire, England as a personal tartan. - undated — Fiddes (2007) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Lochcarron sample. Based on #836 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) Fiddes Rock & wheel but with the red replaced by dark green. Designed and woven for a Jason Dalley of Wiltshire, England as a personal tartan.
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
- pre 2008 (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
the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references) - 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: 5638
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7618
Thread count
G/28 DG28 DB28 K2 DB2 K2 DG76 G18 DB/18
One full sett is 358 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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 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.
ID: /variants/s9/g14dg14db14k1db1k1dg38g9db9~x2/