Berwick (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 BGBKBKGKBBKBG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3686
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1983 — Berwick (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Based on the Prince Charles Edward Stewart. Variation on the original WCWM to make both warp and weft same as the blue sett. Was corporate. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Fraser & Kirkbright say (Sept 2002) it was made for Aljean. Aljean - women's clothes retailer in Vancouver Canada traded under Aljean name from 1950-2012. - undated — Berwick (register-of-tartans, record)
Based on the Prince Charles Edward Stewart sett. Fraser & Kirkbright suggested in September 2002 that it was made for Aljean.
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
- 1983 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5160
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3686
Thread count
DO/48 G10 N4 K28 DR4 K6 G6 K6 N28 DO12 K8 DO6 G/4
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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/s13/do24g5n2k14dr2k3g3k3n14do6k4do3g2~x2/