Wood Clan/Family Tartan
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 house-of-tartan. It is a 23 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=6630
Provenance
Earliest known date: March 2005 A tartan for all of the name. Initiated by Leslie N Wood of Dartmouth, 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
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
K/6 LR4 K12 G6 K6 G42 DB36 R4 DB4 R4 DB4 R6 DB4 R4 DB4 R4 DB36 G42 K6 G6 K12 DY4 K/6
One full sett is 512 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
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.49 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/k3dy2k6g3k3g21db18r2db2r2db2r3db2r2db2r2db18g21k3g3k6lr2k3~x2/