Unnamed C18th - S.Uist

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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 BBBGBBBGYBGBBBGBGW.

Part of the Duke of Perth tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5308

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: 1730 (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: 5308
Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3028

Thread count

DR/6 DP68 DR8 DG12 DR8 DP8 DR80 DG4 LY4 DR4 DG8 DR8 DP72 DR8 DG8 DR96 DG12 W/2

One full sett is 824 threads.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
DG	`#004028` #004028	oklch(32.8% 0.073 160.8)
DP	`#4B0B4F` #4B0B4F	oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
DR	`#55120C` #55120C	oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
DG	`#285800` #285800	oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8)
W	`#F7F7F7` #F7F7F7	oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
LB	`#B5BBDE` #B5BBDE	oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
LY	`#DCBC32` #DCBC32	oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)

Sample pattern

DR/6 DP68 DR8 DG12 DR8 DP8 DR80 DG4 LY4 DR4 DG8 DR8 DP72 DR8 DG8 DR96 DG12 W/2 tartan

ID: /variants/s18/dr3dp34dr4dg6dr4dp4dr40dg2ly2dr2dg4dr4dp36dr4dg4dr48dg6w1x2dg4112135/