Waverley Check
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 BWKWKWKWRKRWRKRWKWKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4506
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1984 — Waverley Check (register-of-tartans, record)
Nomindex notes: 'Designed by Ramsay Johnstone for Edinburgh Woollen Mills as a House Check to be used for staff uniforms etc. 1984. Name taken from Waverley Mills (Edinburgh Woollen Mill's H.Q. in Langholm). Stewart modification. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Nomindex slog is TTT : TTT. No Sindex card. - 1984 — Waverley Check (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Nomindex notes: "Designed by Ramsay Johnstone for Edinburgh Woollen Mills as a House Check to be used for staff uniforms etc. 1984. Name taken from Waverley Mills (Edinburgh Woollen Mill's H.Q. in Langholm.) Stewart modification. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Nomindex slog is TTT : TTT. No Sindex card.
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
- 1984 (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: 4506
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1747
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1747
Thread count
DO/88 W8 K12 W4 K4 W4 K4 W28 O20 K4 O8 W4 O8 K4 O20 W28 K4 W4 K4 W4 K12 W/8
One full sett is 472 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
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/s12/do22w2k3w1k1w1k1w7o5k1o2w1~x4/