Waggrall (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 RWRRWBWWWBWGGWBWGGWGGWGGWWBWBWWRRWRWRRWWBWBWWGGGWGGGWRRWR.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 57 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1691

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
1797 (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 (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

R/8 W2 Ri22 R4 W4 DP22 LB8 W4 LB8 DP22 W4 G8 DY8 W2 DP10 W2 DY8 G8 W4 DG20 G8 W4 G8 DG20 W4 LB4 DP12 W2 DP12 LB4 W4 R4 Ri22 W2 R8 W2 Ri22 R4 W4 LB4 DP12 W2 DP12 LB4 W4 DG12 G4 DY4 W2 DY4 G4 DG12 W4 R4 Ri22 W2 R/8

One full sett is 880 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
R#C80000 #C80000oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2)
R#C80050 #C80050oklch(53.2% 0.213 9.9)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)

Sample pattern

R/8 W2 Ri22 R4 W4 DP22 LB8 W4 LB8 DP22 W4 G8 DY8 W2 DP10 W2 DY8 G8 W4 DG20 G8 W4 G8 DG20 W4 LB4 DP12 W2 DP12 LB4 W4 R4 Ri22 W2 R8 W2 Ri22 R4 W4 LB4 DP12 W2 DP12 LB4 W4 DG12 G4 DY4 W2 DY4 G4 DG12 W4 R4 Ri22 W2 R/8 tartan

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.

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