Vaughan (Welsh Series)
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 WKGKYKYKYKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4445
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — Vaughan (Welsh Series) (register-of-tartans, record)
Despite there being no known tradition of tartan in Wales, this is one of a growing series of commercial Welsh 'name' tartans marketed by the Wales Tartan Centre in Cardiff. Designed for The Wales Tartan Centre in Cardiff by Sheila Daniel of Cambrian Woollen Mill, Powys. They are unusual tartans in that many of them incorporate odd numbered threads and have quite different warp & weft, both in thread numbers and sometimes colours. - pre 2004 — Vaughan (Welsh Name) (tartans-authority, record)
The tartan for this Welsh surname and its variations, is commercially accepted as a tartan or ?plaid? in Wales, this is one of the tartans actually woven in Wales at the Cambrian Woollen Mill, weaving on the same site since 1830. This tartan differs from many traditional patterns in that the warp and weft differ, giving the finished worsted wool cloth more of a predominant ?stripe?, vertically noticeable in the finished Kilt, or ?Cilt? in Wales. Available from Wales Tartan Centres in Swansea, +44 (0)1792 474685.
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
- 2004 (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: 4445
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6168
Thread count
W/2 K35 DG30 K3 LO30 K2 LO4 K2 LO30 K3 W/2
One full sett is 282 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s11/w2k35dg30k3lo30k2lo4k2lo30k3w2/