Unnamed C18th - Cant Counts
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 BWWRRWRRWWBRWGGWWWWWGGWWBWWRRWRRWWBWWGGWWWWWGGWRBWWRRWRRWWBRRWGGWWWWWGGWWBWWRRWRRW.
Part of the Duke of Perth 1739 tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 82 stripe tartan.
⚠ This record is withdrawn — kept as a historical reading, not a current registration.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4414
Provenance
SRT 4414 has been withdrawn from the Scottish Register of Tartans. The reading — from James Cant's thread-count book (98 colour changes) — is one of several attempts to size the plaid in Domenico Duprà's 1739 portrait of Lord John Drummond; it is kept as a historical reading under the Duke of Perth 1739 tartan.
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: 4414
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5724
Thread count
DB/20 LB6 W2 Ri12 R24 W2 R24 Ri12 W2 LB6 DB20 R12 W2 DG20 Y12 W2 LB4 W2 LB4 W2 Y12 DG20 W2 LB6 DB20 LB6 W2 Ri10 R12 W2 R12 Ri10 W2 LB6 DB20 LB6 W2 DG20 Y12 W2 LB4 W2 LB4 W2 Y12 DG20 W2 R12 DB20 LB6 W2 Ri12 R24 W2 R24 Ri12 W2 LB6 DB20 R12 Ri10 W2 DG20 Y12 W2 LB4 W2 LB4 W2 Y12 DG20 W2 LB6 DB20 LB6 W2 Ri10 R12 W2 R12 Ri10 W/2
One full sett is 1474 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 12.76 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s82/db10lb3w1ri6r12w1r12ri6w1lb3db10r6w1dg10y6w1lb2w1lb2w1y6dg10w1lb3db10lb3w1ri5r6w1r6ri5w1lb3db10lb3w1dg10y6w1lb2w1lb2w1y6dg10w1r6db10lb3w1ri6r12w1r12ri6w1lb3db10r6ri5w1dg10y6w1lb2w1lb2w1y6dg10w1lb3db10-h7a0400a6fa8b0740/