Wombles #4
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 BWYWBRWRBWGWBWBWGWBRWRBWYWBW.
Part of the Wombles tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 28 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4775
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1970 — Wombles #4 (register-of-tartans, record)
The Wombles were a very popular children's TV programme during the 1970s. They were small furry animal puppets that lived in burrows on Wimbldon Common and came out at night to clean up the rubbish left by people. Scottish Tartans Society records state that Wombles International, of Jacob's Well Mews, London, patented this design which is a variant of the Jacobite tartan. The status of the other Wombles recorded here are in doubt - they are possibly design exercises produced before settling on #4775. A note of caution: #6077 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) is a count taken from an actual sample which differs quite a bit from the other reported 'Wombles' setts. - 1970s — Wombles 5 (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
The Wombles were a very popular children's TV programme during the 1970s. They were small furry animal puppets that lived in burrows on Wimbldon Common and came out at night to clean up the rubbish left by people. Tartan Society records state that Wombles International, of Jacob's Well Mews, London, patented this design which is a variant of the Jacobite tartan. The status of the other Wombles recorded here are in doubt - they are possibly design exercises produced before settling on 1783. A note of caution: #6077 is a count taken from an actual sample which differs quite a bit from the other reported 'Wombles' setts.
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
- 1970 (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: 4775
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1783
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1783
Thread count
W/20 DB8 W4 LO32 W4 DB8 R8 W4 R8 DB8 W4 G32 W4 DB8 W20 DB8 W4 G32 W4 DB8 R8 W4 R8 DB8 W4 LO32 W4 DB/8
One full sett is 580 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| 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/s15/w5db2w1g8w1db2r2w1r2db2w1lo8w1db2w5~x4/