Tamer of Wolves
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 BBGBGBGBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10762
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 17/12/2012 — Tamer of Wolves (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Olivier Pisniak to celebrate his love of tartan. Colours: blue is for Saint Brioc, one of the seven founder saints of Brittany said to have wolves bow down before him; grey is for the Eurasian wolf (Cani lupus lupus); tan is for Armorica, the name given in ancient times to the part of Gaul that includes the Brittany peninsula and the territory between the Seine and Loire rivers, extending inland to an indeterminate point and down the Atlantic coast; white is for the seven founder saints of Brittany. - 17/12/2012 — Tamer of Wolves (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Olivier Pisniak to celebrate his love of tartan. Colours: blue is for Saint Brioc, one of the seven founder saints of Brittany said to have wolves bow down before him; grey is for the Eurasian wolf (Cani lupus lupus); tan is for Armorica, the name given in ancient times to the part of Gaul that includes the Brittany peninsula and the territory between the Seine and Loire rivers, extending inland to an indeterminate point and down the Atlantic coast; white is for the seven founder saints of Brittany.
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
- 17/12/2012 (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: 10762
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10762
Thread count
W/18 DB4 DY16 N12 DY18 N30 DY26 N6 DB/8
One full sett is 250 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/w9db2dy8n6dy9n15dy13n3db4~x2/