Sweetheart (Fashion)

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 BWBKRKRKBRKR.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10549

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Tartans Authority
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
data date
29th June 2011 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

Ri/6 K7 Ri45 DR14 K10 R4 K3 Rii6 K20 DR23 LB5 DR/6

One full sett is 286 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
R#A00000 #A00000oklch(44.3% 0.182 29.2)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#E87878 #E87878oklch(70.0% 0.139 21.2)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
R#C80000 #C80000oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2)

Sample pattern

Ri/6 K7 Ri45 DR14 K10 R4 K3 Rii6 K20 DR23 LB5 DR/6 tartan

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.

Sweetheart, TheColville (Personal)Unnamed 18th century plaid (Carlisle Museum)Tribal #2McCandlish, Red (Name)TribalBute Heather, AutumnDrummond - 1739 Lord John (Artefact)King, Garry (Personal)Brown of Castledean (Artefact)groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s12/dr6lb5dr23k20rii6k3r4k10dr14ri45k7ri6~rii2806019-r1807033-ri2109032/

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