Whitson
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 KGYKBBBBBBBKYGKW.
Part of the Whitson tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4617
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1981 — Whitson (register-of-tartans, record)
UK Design No 514358. Sett designed by Scottish Tartans Society for Angus Whitson, Montrose, May 1984 To be the Whitson Tartan. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Collection. - ca. 1984 — Whitson (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Angus Whitson and his family with help from Micheil MacDonald and then woven by Peter MacDonald. Can be worn by all of the name. angus@writehand.co.uk Sample in STA Collection.
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
- 1981 (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: 4617
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1422
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1422
Thread count
LB/16 K4 G76 LO4 K76 DB52 DR8 DB16 DR8 DB16 DR8 DB52 K76 LO4 G76 K/4
One full sett is 972 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/s9/lb4k1g19lo1k19db13dr2db4dr2~x4/