Abbotsford, City of

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 GKWKGRKWKBKGW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10387

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
01/02/2011 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

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

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  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

G/100 K6 W8 K2 Y10 R8 K2 W4 K4 DB30 K10 G8 W/4

One full sett is 288 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

G/100 K6 W8 K2 Y10 R8 K2 W4 K4 DB30 K10 G8 W/4 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.

City of Abbotsford (District)Mighty MenUnidentified #30Unnamed No 38 Artifact TartanNeumann - GPS German Pipe SmokersNeumann - German Pipe Smokers (Corp)CockburnCockburn Clan TartanReilly fae the MearnsReilly fae the Mearns (Personal)groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s13/g50k3w4k1y5r4k1w2k2db15k5g4w2~x2/

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