Williams Welsh Name Tartan

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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 GKRGRKRGRKRGRGRGRGRKRGRKRGRK.

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

Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 28 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=3234

Provenance

Earliest known date: 2002 The tartan for this Welsh surname and its variations, Williamson, Wills, Gwylim, is commercially accepted as a tartan or plaid in Wales, this is one of the tartans actually woven in Wales at the Cambrian Woollen Mill, weaving on the same site since 1830. This tartan differs from many traditional patterns in that the warp and weft differ, giving the finished worsted wool cloth more of a predominant stripe , vertically noticeable in the finished Kilt, or Cilt in Wales. Available from Wales Tartan Centres in Swansea, +44 (0)1792 474685.

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: 2002 (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/4 R60 DG4 R6 K4 R12 DG2 R12 K4 R6 DG4 R26 Y4 R52 Y4 R26 DG4 R6 K4 R12 DG2 R12 K4 R6 DG4 R60 K4 DG/4

One full sett is 696 threads.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
R	`#D60020` #D60020	oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
DG	`#053819` #053819	oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
K	`#000000` #000000	oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
Y	`#8B6E00` #8B6E00	oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

K/4 R60 DG4 R6 K4 R12 DG2 R12 K4 R6 DG4 R26 Y4 R52 Y4 R26 DG4 R6 K4 R12 DG2 R12 K4 R6 DG4 R60 K4 DG/4 tartan

ID: /variants/s28/k2r30dg2r3k2r6dg1r6k2r3dg2r13y2r26y2r13dg2r3k2r6dg1r6k2r3dg2r30k2dg2~x2/