Edinburgh, '86 Border

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 BBBBBBBBBBBRBBBWBWBWBWBWBWBBBR.

Part of the Edinburgh, '86 Border tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from weddslist. It is a 30 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Weddslist
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/weddslist/data.csv
data date
2016-11-17 (dataset default)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Weddslist
    the living privately compiled reference
  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

Thread count

R/2 DB2 N2 DB20 W6 DB4 W2 DB2 W2 DB6 W2 DB2 W2 DB4 W6 DB20 N2 DB2 R2 DB2 B4 DB4 B4 DB4 B78 DB4 B4 DB4 B4 DB/2

One full sett is 404 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
B#466CC8 #466CC8oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

R/2 DB2 N2 DB20 W6 DB4 W2 DB2 W2 DB6 W2 DB2 W2 DB4 W6 DB20 N2 DB2 R2 DB2 B4 DB4 B4 DB4 B78 DB4 B4 DB4 B4 DB/2 tartan

ID: /variants/s30/db1b2db2b2db2b39db2b2db2b2db1r1db1n1db10w3db2w1db1w1db3w1db1w1db2w3db10n1db1r1~x2/

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