Delmarva (District)

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 BRBWBWBWBRBRBRBWBYBWBRBWBYBWB.

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

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 29 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/10158/ — retired · Internet Archive copy

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
5th Feb 2010 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references)
  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

N/16 R4 N4 LB2 N2 LB2 N2 LB2 N4 R4 N12 O2 N24 O2 N12 LB2 N2 LY8 N2 LB2 N4 R6 N6 LB2 N2 LY4 N2 LB2 N/16

One full sett is 276 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LY#DCBC32 #DCBC32oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

N/16 R4 N4 LB2 N2 LB2 N2 LB2 N4 R4 N12 O2 N24 O2 N12 LB2 N2 LY8 N2 LB2 N4 R6 N6 LB2 N2 LY4 N2 LB2 N/16 tartan

ID: /variants/s29/n8r2n2lb1n1lb1n1lb1n2r2n6o1n12o1n6lb1n1ly4n1lb1n2r3n3lb1n1ly2n1lb1n8~x2/

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