Forget Family (Yonne)

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 GGGGRG.

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

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10694

Provenance

Earliest known date: 11 September 2012 The gold and red colours in the tartan are the Forget family colours, with green to recall the importance of the forest for the family.

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 14/07/2012 — Forget Family (Yonne) (register-of-tartans, record)
    The gold and red colours in the tartan are the Forget family colours, with green to recall the importance of the land.
  • 11 September 2012 — Forget Family (Yonne) Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Register of Tartans
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
data date
14/07/2012 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

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

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  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

G/32 Y4 G32 Y48 R4 Y/4

One full sett is 212 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

G/32 Y4 G32 Y48 R4 Y/4 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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ID: /variants/s6/g8y1g8y12r1y1~x4/

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