Westwood MacAndreas
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 BWRKRWKWKYKYKRBRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5530
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1993 — Westwood MacAndreas (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, for her Anglomania collection, Autumn/Winter 1993/4 and woven by Lochcarron of Scotland. Named MacAndreas after her husband, Andreas Kronthaler. - pre 2008 — Westwood MacAndreas (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
One of many tartans designed for the fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. Threadcount & woven sample from Lochcarron.
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
- 1993 (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: 5530
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7489
Thread count
R/10 T12 R4 T18 R28 K10 LY4 K4 LY4 K10 W10 K10 LB46 R2 K4 R2 LB10 T/8
One full sett is 374 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| 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/s18/r5t6r2t9r14k5ly2k2ly2k5w5k5lb23r1k2r1lb5t4~x2/