Protheroe of Wales

March 18, 2023 ⌗ Edit this in the TTD

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 BGBYBGBBGBGGGBGBBGBYBG.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3416

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: 2002 (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: 3416
Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5752

Thread count

DG/40 DBi4 LY4 DBi4 DG8 DBi20 DB8 DG8 DB8 DG8 DGi20 DG8 DB8 DG8 DB8 DBi20 DG8 DBi4 LY4 DBi4 DG40 DB/12

One full sett is 460 threads.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
DB	`#202060` #202060	oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9)
DB	`#003C64` #003C64	oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0)
DG	`#003820` #003820	oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3)
DG	`#285800` #285800	oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8)
LY	`#DCBC32` #DCBC32	oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)

Sample pattern

DG/40 DBi4 LY4 DBi4 DG8 DBi20 DB8 DG8 DB8 DG8 DGi20 DG8 DB8 DG8 DB8 DBi20 DG8 DBi4 LY4 DBi4 DG40 DB/12 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

—

460

Protheroe of Wales

2.93

256

Protheroe (Welsh Name)

3.19

256

Richard of Wales

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/s22/dg10dbi1ly1dbi1dg2dbi5db2dg2db2dg2dgi5dg2db2dg2db2dbi5dg2dbi1ly1dbi1dg10db3x4dbi1404245-db1204274-dgi1605139/