Madewell
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 RKWKGGGKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2780
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/2000 — Madewell (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by the late Don Smith (2002) of Heraldic Graphics, Glasgow for Steven Madewell of Oklahoma USA. May be worn by anyone of that name or its many variants. Estimated thread count for display purposes only. - Sept. 2000 — Madewell (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by the late Don Smith (2002?) of Heraldic Graphics, Glasgow for Steven Bryan Madewell of Oklahoma USA. No significance to the design or colours. May be worn by anyone of that name or its many variants. 'Madewell' originally came from Northamptonshire, England (c 12th C) and travelled to the Colonies (USA) in the 17th C, one branch settling in Maryland and the other in north Carolina.
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
- 01/09/2000 (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: 2780
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4024
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2735
Thread count
R/4 K4 W4 K28 DG26 G12 Y4 K4 W/4
One full sett is 172 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/r2k2w2k14dg13g6y2k2w2~x2/