Houston

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 GGRGGGRGGGRG.

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

Sourced from weddslist. It is a 12 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Weddslist
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/weddslist/data.csv
data date
2016-11-17 (dataset default)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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

  1. Weddslist
    the living privately compiled reference
  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

Thread count

G/4 Y2 O4 Y2 G4 Y2 O4 Y64 DG4 Y24 O4 Y/4

One full sett is 236 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)

Sample pattern

G/4 Y2 O4 Y2 G4 Y2 O4 Y64 DG4 Y24 O4 Y/4 tartan

ID: /variants/s12/y2o2y12dg2y32o2y1g2y1o2y1g2~x2/

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