Unnamed No 57 Tartan
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 RWBGGRBRWR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1317
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1870 This sett is taken from the records of Messrs Bolingbroke and Jones of Norwich, who were weavers around 1870. Some of the tartans have been adopted or modified in recent times as the copyright of the designs is now in the public domain.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1870 — Unnamed No 57 Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Unidentified No 57 (register-of-tartans, record)
This sett is taken from the records of Messrs Bolingbroke and Jones of Norwich, who were weavers around 1870. Some of the tartans have been adopted or modified in recent times as the copyright of the designs is now in the public domain. This collection is found in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — Unnamed No 57 (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1870 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 4328
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1317
Thread count
R/12 W2 R12 DB4 R12 G24 Y2 DB16 LB8 R/8
One full sett is 180 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/s10/r6w1r6db2r6g12y1db8lb4r4~x2/