Stewart Black.. Clan 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 KBWKGKWKGRKRW.
Part of the Stewart tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1073
Provenance
Earliest known date: c.1830 This sett appears in Paton's collection housed in the Scottish Tartans Museum, Tolbooth, Stirling (1995). The samples are undated but the collection is known to have been put together around the 1830's, with some additions during the Victorian period. The tartan is worn by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards pipe band and the Grampian Police pipe band.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- c.1830 — Stewart Black.. Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Stuart/Stewart Black #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
This sett appears in Paton's collection - Book 4 page 112a. The samples are undated but the collection is known to have been put together around the 1830's, with some additions during the Victorian period. This collection was in the Scottish Tartans Society archive, it has now been returned to the Paton firm at Alloa. - undated — Stewart Black (weddslist, record)
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
- c.1830 (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: 3996
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1073
Thread count
K/116 DB10 W10 K20 Y6 K6 W6 K6 G28 R22 K6 R8 W/6
One full sett is 378 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/k58db5w5k10y3k3w3k3g14r11k3r4w3~x2/