Scott (Sir Walter Scott) (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 KWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3694
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1822 Smibert (1850) publishes this design which he says, "..was produced for his own use by Sir Walter Scott in 1822, and that he wore it in private, in the form of a Lowland shepherd's plaid."
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1822 — Scott (Sir Walter Scott) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Smibert (1850) publishes this design which he says, ''..was produced for his own use by Sir Walter Scott in 1822, and that he wore it in private, in the form of a Lowland shepherd's plaid. See also #1825 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) by A & K Johnson which is a shortened version of this which modern weavers have ignored in favour of this Smibert version. - 1822 — Scott Black and White Personal Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 1850 — Scott - 1850 B & W (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Smibert (1850) publishes this design which he says, ''..was produced for his own use by Sir Walter Scott in 1822, and that he wore it in private, in the form of a Lowland shepherd's plaid. See also #1825 by A & K Johnson which is a shortened version of this which modern weavers have ignored in favour of this Smibert version.
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
- 1822 (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: 3694
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1826
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1826
Thread count
W/8 K4 W24 K24 W8 K4 W4 K4 W8 K24 W24 K24 W8 K4 W4 K4 W8 K24 W24 K/4
One full sett is 468 threads.
Palette
Palette (Tartan Register)
| Colour | Shade | Ref | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | K2 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | LN | oklch(90.7% 0.000 89.9) |
| W | #F8F8F8 #F8F8F8 | W6 | oklch(97.9% 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/w6k6w2k1w1k1w2k6w6k1w2~x4/