Mazarian
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 KGWYWWKRWWKWY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2868
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2005 — Mazarian (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Varg Breivik and Geoffrey (Tailor) of Edinburgh as a personal tartan for all Breiviks from Oygarden (a town in southern Norway about 40 miles from Bergen). Colours are from the Norwegian flag with the green and light brown lines 'symbolising the deep fertile fjords of Norway'. The pattern is asymmetric (non repeating) and there is some confusion as to the positioning of the red square which is said to symbolise Scotland. - pre 2005 — Nazarian (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Designed by Varg Breivik and Geoffrey (Tailor) of Edinburgh as a personal tartan for all Breiviks from Oygarden (a town in southern Norway about 40 miles from Bergen). Colours are from the Norwegian flag with the green and light brown lines "symbolising the deep fertile fjords of Norway. The pattern is asymmetric (non repeating) and there is some confusion as to the positioning of the red square which is said to symbolise Scotland.
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
- 2005 (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: 2868
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6728
Thread count
LY/12 W8 K6 LB28 W6 R68 K68 W8 LB6 LY16 W6 G8 K/4
One full sett is 472 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/ly6w4k3lb14w3r34k34w4lb3ly8w3g4k2~x2/