Walkers Shortbread
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 RBRBRWRGRBRGRBR.
Sourced from research. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://tartandictionary.org/posts/walkers-shortbread-tartan/
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Our own research
- licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- captured
- 2025-11-01
Thread count
R/16 DB6 R6 DB5 R40 LB3 R6 DG12 R5 DP4 R5 DG30 R5 DB5 R/12
One full sett is 292 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s15/r16db6r6db5r40lb3r6dg12r5dp4r5dg30r5db5r12/