Scottish Motor Trade Association Trade Tartan
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 BGBKWBBWBWBWBBWKBGBG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2392
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1903 This is a corporate tartan for the Scottish Motor Trade Association which was established in 1903. Tartan Society threadcount different - G/12 DB4 LG54 B26 K4 W8 DB18 B44 W3 DB12 W/4. Its graphic - and that of the STWR - is incorrect in that what is recorded G/12 for the first pivot actually shows as dark blue. (BW Feb 2005).
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1903 — Scottish Motor Trade Association Trade Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/07/1997 — Scottish Motor Trade Association (register-of-tartans, record)
This is a corporate tartan for the Scottish Motor Trade Association which was established in 1903. Scottish Tartans Society threadcount is different. Its graphic - and that of the Scottish Tartans World Register - is incorrect in that what is recorded G/12 for the first pivot actually shows as dark blue. (Scottish Tartans Society February 2005).
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1903 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 3729
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2392
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2392
Thread count
G/10 T4 G32 T20 K4 W6 DB12 T28 W4 DB8 W4 DB8 W4 T28 DB12 W6 K4 T20 G32 T/4
One full sett is 486 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #2888C4 #2888C4 | oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5) |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 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/s11/g5t2g16t10k2w3db6t14w2db4w2x2t2405244-db1106275/