Spencer

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 RWRRRWRWBWW.

Part of the Spencer tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3857

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
1990 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

O/80 LB6 O16 R4 O4 W4 O20 LB12 DO4 LB4 W/4

One full sett is 232 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DO#412714 #412714oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

O/80 LB6 O16 R4 O4 W4 O20 LB12 DO4 LB4 W/4 tartan

ID: /variants/s11/o40lb3o8r2o2w2o10lb6do2lb2w2~x2/

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