Bowling (Clan)
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 WBYKGKWKGGKGW.
Part of the Bowling tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1796
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1880 — Bowling (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
The original Sindex notes say: "Irish tartan - NO Scottish connections. Extracted from 'Clan Originaux' J Claude et Cie, Paris c.1880 in possession of Pendleton Woolen Mills of Portland, Oregon per Wm H Johnston of Skippack, Penn. USA August 1978." Research has since shown (2003) however that there is no Dowling tartan in that 1880 book of woven samples; neither are there any of the other 'Irish' tartans whose provenance is quoted as Clans Originaux. - 01/01/1978 — Bowling (register-of-tartans, record)
An Irish tartan originally claimed to have been taken from Clans Originaux (1880) but does not.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1880 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 324
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1796
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1796
Thread count
W/8 DB56 LO12 K24 G8 K8 W8 K8 G32 DY24 K8 DY12 W/8
One full sett is 416 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| 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/s13/w2db14lo3k6g2k2w2k2g8dy6k2dy3w2~x4/