Bird Family (Australia) (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 WBWGGWWBW.
Part of the Bird tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10594
Provenance
Earliest known date: 11 April 2012 A new tartan designed as a legacy for future generations of the Bird family. Colours: green and gold (sage green) represent Australia, the country where the designer’s ancestors settled and called home; the shades of blue represent the ocean and the designer’s intent to sail the oceans of the world; and most importantly, white stands for truth and justice, a common bond of the Bird family. The designer is happy for anyone sharing the same surname to wear the tartan. The designer, Andrew Bird, is happy to be contacted by persons interested in wearing the tartan.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 09/04/2012 — Bird Family (Australia) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
A new tartan designed as a legacy for future generations of the Bird family. Colours: green and ‘gold’ (sage green) represent Australia, the country where the designer’s ancestors settled and called home; the shades of blue represent the ocean and the designer’s intent to sail the oceans of the world; and most importantly, white stands for truth and justice, a common bond of the Bird family. The designer is happy for anyone sharing the same surname to wear the tartan. This tartan was created using the tartan design software at www.scotweb.co.uk. The designer, Andrew Bird, is happy to be contacted by persons interested in wearing the tartan. - 11 April 2012 — Bird Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 09/04/2012 (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: 10594
Thread count
W/6 DB38 W2 LB34 Y22 G20 W2 DB6 W/2
One full sett is 256 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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/s9/w3db19w1lb17y11g10w1db3w1~x2/