Stewart/Stuart Mourning
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 BKBKBKBKWKWKBKBKBKBK.
Part of the Stewart Mourning tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3947
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1880 — Stewart/Stuart Mourning (register-of-tartans, record)
Clans Originaux' is a pattern book produced in Paris in 1880 by J. Claude Fres Et Cie. The only copy known is owned by Pendleton Mills in Portland, Oregon. From the photograph of this tartan in that book it would appear that the central two lines are white but without seeing the woven sample, that can't be regarded as definite. - 1880 — Stewart Mourning (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
'Clans Originaux' is a pattern book produced in Paris in 1880 by J. Claude Fres Et Cie. of which the Scottish Tartans Authority now has a copy. (2015)..
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
- 1880 (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: 3947
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1126
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1126
Thread count
K/80 N6 K10 N4 K4 N4 K4 N12 K8 W4 K8 W4 K8 N12 K4 N4 K4 N4 K10 N/6
One full sett is 314 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s11/k40n3k5n2k2n2k2n6k4w2k4~x2/