Houston (Personal)
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 GYGYGYGYBYGY.
Part of the Houston tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1773
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
- 01/11/1994 (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: 1773
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2290
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2290
Thread count
G/4 LY2 DY4 LY2 G4 LY2 DY4 LY64 DO4 LY24 DY4 LY/4
One full sett is 236 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as G/4 LY2 DY4 LY2 G4 LY2 DY4 LY64 DO4 LY24 DY4 LY4 DY4 LY24 DO4 LY64 DY4 LY2 G4 LY2 DY4 LY/2 — 466 threads; it folds to the canonical 236-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| LY | #BC8C00 #BC8C00 | oklch(66.8% 0.137 84.1) |
| LY | #BC8C00 #BC8C00 | oklch(66.8% 0.137 84.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LY | #A08858 #A08858 | oklch(63.7% 0.071 84.0) |
| DY | #604000 #604000 | oklch(39.8% 0.083 76.8) |
| DY | #604000 #604000 | oklch(39.8% 0.083 76.8) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 6.65 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
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