Abergaveny (Fashion)
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 WKWRKWWKRWWRKWWKW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 17 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3013
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1989 — Abergaveny (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
A fashion design from West Coast Woolen Mills of Vancouver for the clothing company Aljean. Aljean - women's clothes retailer in Vancouver Canada traded under Aljean name from 1950-2012. - undated — Abergavenny (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount taken from a West Coast Woollen Mills sample held by Lochcarron of Scotland.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 1989 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 4885
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3013
Thread count
W/36 K41 W4 LB6 K8 O24 W12 LB4 O4 K6 LB4 W4 K48 O4 W8 K22 W/18
One full sett is 452 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s17/w36k41w4lb6k8o24w12lb4o4k6lb4w4k48o4w8k22w18/