Whisky
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 GGGGGGKYYWKGKWKGKWKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4613
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2007 — Whisky (register-of-tartans, record)
The yellow lines on the brown band are the fields of barley; the black squares are for the peat and coal used to dry the malted barley. The small brown squares are for the yeast. The darker blue squares are for the Scottish water, the brown lines are the barrels, black lines the warehouses, the light blue lines are for the 'Angels' share', the resulting fungi from which blacken the walls of the warehouses and the white lines are for the glass bottles. - pre 2007 — Whisky (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
The yellow lines on the brown band are the fields of barley; the black squares are for the peat and coal used to dry the malted barley. The small brown squares are for the yeast. The darker blue squares are for the Scottish water, the brown lines are the barrels, black lines the warehouses, the light blue lines are for the 'Angels' share' the resulting fungi from which blacken the walls of the warehouses and the white lines are for the glass bottles.
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
- 2007 (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: 4613
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7267
Thread count
Y/10 K2 W3 K6 DY4 K2 LB8 K2 DY4 K6 LB3 LG49 LY4 K42 DY42 Y6 DY6 Y6 DY6 Y/8
One full sett is 420 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LG | #789CB4 #789CB4 | oklch(67.5% 0.053 237.8) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #98C8E8 #98C8E8 | oklch(81.0% 0.068 237.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LB | #A8ACE8 #A8ACE8 | oklch(76.3% 0.086 281.2) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/s20/y10k2w3k6dy4k2lb8k2dy4k6lb3lg49ly4k42dy42y6dy6y6dy6y8~lb3203246-lg2702249/