Cox

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 GGGGWGWGBGWGBGBGWGWGGW.

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

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5941

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
2006 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  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

LB/6 DG24 DY6 LP6 DY6 LP8 DG24 N6 DG6 N6 DG56 W6 DG6 N6 DG24 LP8 DY6 LP6 DY6 DG24 DY8 DG/4

One full sett is 506 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
LP#E4A6DB #E4A6DBoklch(80.0% 0.100 331.6)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

LB/6 DG24 DY6 LP6 DY6 LP8 DG24 N6 DG6 N6 DG56 W6 DG6 N6 DG24 LP8 DY6 LP6 DY6 DG24 DY8 DG/4 tartan

ID: /variants/s22/lb3dg12dy3lp3dy3lp4dg12n3dg3n3dg28w3dg3n3dg12lp4dy3lp3dy3dg12dy4dg2~x2/

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