Wiegratz Alba (Personal)
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 WBWGRKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4623
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2007 — Wiegratz Alba (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed to honour the late Herbert Wiegratz and his late wife Sylvia Gemmell. The design incorporates the colours of the German National flag and the Blue and white of the Scottish Saltire representing the two Nations. Threadcount estimated. Tommy Gemmell - pre 2007 — Wiegratz Alba (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed to honour the late Herbert Wiegratz and his late wife Sylvia Gemmell. The design incorporates the colors of the German National flag and the Blue and white of the Scottish Saltire representing the two Nations Threadcount estimated. Tommy Gemmell
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
- 2007 (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: 4623
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7164
Thread count
W/6 K4 LB60 K10 R10 Y10 LB10 DB24 W/2
One full sett is 264 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/w3k2lb30k5r5y5lb5db12w1~x2/