Ladybird (Personal)
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 BRGBGBGBRBRBRBR.
Part of the Ladybird tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2022
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/02/1997 — Ladybird (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed in 1997 by Dawn Robson-Bell of Lochcarron for The Check Trading Co, Tokyo. Based on Carrick. Colours need adjustment. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. - 1997 — Ladybird (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed in May 1997 by Dawn Robson-Bell of Lochcarron for The Check Trading Co, Tokyo. Based on Carrick. Colours need adjustment. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection.
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
- 01/02/1997 (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: 2022
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2371
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2371
Thread count
R/52 DR2 R2 DB4 R2 DR2 R10 DB10 G4 DB10 G4 DB10 G48 R2 DR/4
One full sett is 276 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #880000 #880000 | oklch(39.4% 0.162 29.2) |
| DR | #4C0000 #4C0000 | oklch(26.2% 0.107 29.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
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/s15/r26dr1r1db2r1dr1r5db5g2db5g2db5g24r1dr2x2r1606028-dr1004029/