Welly (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 RWRBRWWBWWBBWRBWBW.

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

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 18 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/10413/ — retired · Internet Archive copy

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 2011 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

W/10 T10 LP10 N10 O10 LP10 DP10 T10 LP10 W10 T10 LP10 W10 O10 T10 O10 LP10 O/10

One full sett is 340 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#00879F #00879Foklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
LP#E4A6DB #E4A6DBoklch(80.0% 0.100 331.6)
N#5C5C5C #5C5C5Coklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9)
O#888888 #888888oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

W/10 T10 LP10 N10 O10 LP10 DP10 T10 LP10 W10 T10 LP10 W10 O10 T10 O10 LP10 O/10 tartan

Nearest tartan variants

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.

ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
340
sett
340
sett

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.

Welly (Personal)groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s18/o1lp1o1t1o1w1lp1t1w1lp1t1dp1lp1o1n1lp1t1w1x10o62-n47/

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