Gudbrandsdalen, Mannsdrakt
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 GRKGRKGRGKRGKRWR.
Sourced from weddslist. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts
Provenance
Earliest known date: 18th Century Sample is an off cut of hard tartan woven in plain weave - from fabric used to make a true copy of the original jacket in the possession of Bjornsgaard Farm, Dovre, Norway. Part of the collection of Norwegian district tartans presented to the Scottish Tartans Society by Erik Paulsen in 1992. Scottish-Norwegian connections are explored in a research report available from the Society.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
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
- Weddslist
the living privately compiled reference - 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
Thread count
DG/88 R4 K10 DG8 R4 K2 DG4 R20 DG4 K2 R4 DG8 K10 R4 W2 R/88
One full sett is 348 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s16/dg44r2k5dg4r2k1dg2r10dg2k1r2dg4k5r2w1r44~x2/