Leith

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 RKWBWGWBWBWKW.

Sourced from weddslist. It is a 13 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

LB/10 K4 LB34 DBi6 LB6 DB44 LB6 G44 LB6 DBi6 LB54 K4 R/8

One full sett is 446 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#304080 #304080oklch(39.4% 0.109 270.2)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DB#000050 #000050oklch(19.5% 0.135 264.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

LB/10 K4 LB34 DBi6 LB6 DB44 LB6 G44 LB6 DBi6 LB54 K4 R/8 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.

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ID: /variants/s13/lb5k2lb17dbi3lb3db22lb3g22lb3dbi3lb27k2r4x2dbi1604274-db0805267/

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