Unidentified Cant #03
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 BBWBBWBWBRWRBWBWBBWBBWGGGWBBWGWBBWGGGWBBWBBWBWBRWRBWBWBBWBBWRRWRRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 66 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4281
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
- 1799 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4281
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5726
Thread count
DBi/6 DB8 W2 DB8 DBi6 W2 DBi52 W2 DBi10 R6 W2 R6 DBi10 W2 DBi52 W2 DBi6 DB8 W2 DB8 DBi6 W2 DG16 DGi10 G10 W2 DBi8 DB6 W2 G8 W2 DB6 DBi8 W2 G10 DGi10 DG16 W2 DBi6 DB8 W2 DB8 DBi6 W2 DBi52 W2 DBi10 R6 W2 R6 DBi10 W2 DBi52 W2 DBi6 DB8 W2 DB8 DBi6 W2 R28 Ri12 W2 Ri20 R28 W/2
One full sett is 1244 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| DG | #285800 #285800 | oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #E87878 #E87878 | oklch(70.0% 0.139 21.2) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
Sample pattern
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.
ID: /variants/s66/dbi3db4w1db4dbi3w1dbi26w1dbi5r3w1r3dbi5w1dbi26w1dbi3db4w1db4dbi3w1dg8dgi5g5w1dbi4db3w1g4w1db3dbi4w1g5dgi5dg8w1dbi3db4w1db4dbi3w1dbi26w1dbi5r3w1r3dbi5w1dbi26w1dbi3db4w1db4dbi3w1r14ri6w1ri10r14w1x2dbi-h99281661840d39d8/