Washington Stockmens
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 BBBBKBKBBBBBKBGBGBKBKBGBGBKBBBBBKBKBBB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 38 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4496
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Washington Stockmens (register-of-tartans, record)
A necktie produced by Botany Mills USA for various stockmen's associations in the US and named 'Washington' because the men of the Granges suggested that Washinton was the first great stockman in the USA. Non-reversing, but may have been a weavinf error. Researched in 1988 by WHJ who could not identify Charles Johnson, (other than that he was perhaps an employee of Botany Worsted Mills which has not been in existence for many years). The National Grange headquarters in Washington, DC, knew nothing about it either. - pre 2002 — Washington Stockmens (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
A necktie produced by Botany Mills USA for various stockmen's associations in the US and named "Washington" because the men of the Granges suggested that Washinton was the first great stockman in the USA. Non-reversing --- was it a weaving error ? Researched in 1988 by WHJ who could not identify Charles Johnson, (other than that he was perhaps an employee of Botany Worsted Mills which has not been in existence for many years). The National Grange headquarters in Washington, DC, knew nothing about it either.
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
- 2002 (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: 4496
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1995
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1995
Thread count
DB/16 N12 DB16 N76 K8 N12 K8 N48 DB16 N12 DB16 N12 K4 N8 DY4 N8 DY4 N8 K4 N12 K4 N8 DY4 N8 DY4 N8 K4 N12 DB16 N12 DB16 N48 K8 N12 K8 N76 DB16 N/12
One full sett is 1132 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s20/db4n3db4n19k2n3k2n12db4n3db4n3k1n2dy1n2dy1n2k1n3~x4/