Letham (S.Australia)
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 GKWKWGKW.
Part of the Letham tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2106
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/2005 — Letham (S.Australia) (register-of-tartans, record)
A personal tartan for James Letham & his family of South Australia. The House of Tartan and D C Dalgliesh. James Letham is happy for anyone else of the name to wear it. Woven sample. - 2005 August — Letham (S.Australia) (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
A personal tartan for James Letham & his family of South Australia. Organised through The House of Tartan in Comrie and woven by and D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. James Letham is happy for anyone else of the name to wear it. Woven sample.
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
- 01/08/2005 (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: 2106
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6718
Thread count
G/80 K40 LB20 K8 LB14 G26 K8 LB/8
One full sett is 320 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/s8/g40k20lb10k4lb7g13k4lb4~x2/