Tyneside Scottish (Khaki)
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 BGBGBGBGBGBGB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4176
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1914 — Tyneside Scottish (Khaki) (register-of-tartans, record)
An unusual colour variation of Black Watch designed during World War 1 (WW1) for Tyneside Scottish Regiment, but regiment disbanded after WW1 and tartan came to be regarded as a district tartan. Sometimes includes blue, sometimes dark brown, sometimes purple and sometimes green. This version based on JCT telephone reading of his Sindex file card 2 Dec 1994. 't'= khaki. Possibly had the nickname of 'Sandbag tartan' (Alasdair Campbell of Airds, Aug. 2005). - 1914 — Tyneside Scottish Khaki (Milit/Dist) (tartans-authority, record)
An unusual colour variation of Black Watch designed during World War 1 (WW1) for Tyneside Scottish Regiment, but regiment disbanded after WW1 and tartan came to be regarded as a district tartan. Sometimes includes blue, sometimes dark brown, sometimes purple and sometimes green. This version based on JCT telephone reading of his Sindex file card 2 Dec 1994. "t"= khaki. Possibly had the nickname of 'Sandbag tartan' (Alasdair Campbell of Airds, Aug. 2005).
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
- 1914 (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: 4176
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5082
Thread count
DT/44 Y4 DT4 Y4 DT4 Y32 DT32 Y4 DT32 Y32 DT32 Y4 DT/4
One full sett is 416 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| 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/s13/dt11y1dt1y1dt1y8dt8y1dt8y8dt8y1dt1~x4/