Bowcutt, David (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 BKKBKKKKKKKKKB.

Part of the Bowcutt, David tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 14 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/10495/ — retired · Internet Archive copy

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
pre 2011 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DR/2 Ki2 K4 Ki12 K4 Ki4 K100 Ki6 K4 Ki30 DP4 K6 Ki8 DB/2

One full sett is 372 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
K#00002C #00002Coklch(13.2% 0.092 264.1)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
K#101010 #101010oklch(17.3% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

DR/2 Ki2 K4 Ki12 K4 Ki4 K100 Ki6 K4 Ki30 DP4 K6 Ki8 DB/2 tartan

ID: /variants/s14/dr1ki1k2ki6k2ki2k50ki3k2ki15dp2k3ki4db1x2ki17-k1309264/

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