Wood (Clan)
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 KGKGKGBRBRBRBRBRBGKGKYK.
Part of the Wood tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 23 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=6630
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- March 2005 — Wood (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
A tartan for all of the name. Initiated by Leslie N Wood of Dartmouth in Devon and designed by Keith Lumsden. Incorporates the colours of the Duke of Fife and Angus district tartans - areas with which the Woods are said to be historically connected. A Clan Wood Society is in the process of being formed (March 2005) and it is expected that they will adopt this tartan. Woven sample. 6th Feb 2007. No formal vote taken in the society but this is now widely accepted as the clan/family tartan. Stocked by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. - undated — Wood (Clan/Family) (register-of-tartans, record)
Initiated by Leslie N Wood and designed by Keith Lumsden, based on early photographic evidence. The Wood tartan incorporates the colours of the Duke of Fife and Angus district tartans - areas with which the Woods are said to be historically connected. It has been approved by the Chief of Clan Wood and adopted by the Clan Wood Society.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- March 2005 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5069
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6630
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3046
Thread count
K/6 LR4 K12 G6 K6 G42 DB36 R2 DB4 R2 DB4 R6 DB4 R2 DB4 R2 DB36 G42 K6 G6 K12 DY4 K/6
One full sett is 496 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s23/k3dy2k6g3k3g21db18r1db2r1db2r3db2r1db2r1db18g21k3g3k6lr2k3~x2/