Wilson's No.004

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 RWRGBWBYBWRWBYBWBGRWRW.

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

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4644

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
1819 (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

R/14 LB4 R14 G32 DP18 W4 DP4 LY4 DP18 LB16 R64 LB16 DP18 LY4 DP4 W4 DP18 G32 R14 LB4 R14 W/3

One full sett is 629 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
LT#00FCFC #00FCFCoklch(89.7% 0.153 194.8)
R#C80000 #C80000oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2)
R#C80000 #C80000oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2)
W#FCFCFC #FCFCFCoklch(99.1% 0.000 89.9)
W#FCFCFC #FCFCFCoklch(99.1% 0.000 89.9)
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
LY#E8C000 #E8C000oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7)

Sample pattern

R/14 LB4 R14 G32 DP18 W4 DP4 LY4 DP18 LB16 R64 LB16 DP18 LY4 DP4 W4 DP18 G32 R14 LB4 R14 W/3 tartan

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.

Stuart/Stewart - Prince Charles EdwardInverclydeJacobite, dressJacobite Dress General TartanMacColl HuntingMacDougall 5Wilson, Janet (1780 Original)MacDougall #2MacDougal 1Wilson's No.227groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s22/r14lb4r14g32dp18w4dp4ly4dp18lb16r64lb16dp18ly4dp4w4dp18g32r14lb4r14w3~r2109032-w4000000-ly3307090/

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