Down, County
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 BBRBWYBBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=968
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1996 — Down, County (register-of-tartans, record)
One of a series of Irish District tartans designed by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar. These are not 'officially sanctioned' District tartans but have apparently proved popular and no doubt in time will be accepted as genuine District rather than Fashion tartans. Designed for Macnaughtons of Pitlochry as a collection of trade tartans. - 1997 — Down, County District) (tartans-authority, record)
One of a series of Irish District tartans designed by Polly Wittering of the House of Edgar. These were not 'officially sanctioned' District tartans but, like many of their historic district tartan predecessors have apparently proved popular enough to be regarded as 'District' rather than their original categorisation of 'Fashion'. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection.
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
- 1996 (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: 968
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2266
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2266
Thread count
DO/128 DR18 O22 DR8 LB4 LO4 N10 DR4 LO/26
One full sett is 294 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
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/s9/do64dr9o11dr4lb2lo2n5dr2lo13~x2/