Moulin
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 BKGRKGBGKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3029
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1970 From Reis of New Haven, 1970 Same sett as #4490. Ref to Reis reads: ""Our exclusive English hand-blocked silk foulards are created by Reis craftsmen of only the purest unweighted silks, hand-sewn and fully lined. When you tie one on, you'll know it's a Reis." Reis were based in New Haven, Connecticut.
5 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1970 — Moulin (register-of-tartans, record)
From Reis of New Haven, 1970. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Same sett as #4490 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). - 01/01/1970 — Chateau (register-of-tartans, record)
This is the same sett as #5655 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) (Moulin) from Reis of New Haven. - 1970 — Chateau (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
This is the same sett as 5655 (Moulin) from Reis of New Haven. Ref to Reis reads: ""Our exclusive English hand-blocked silk foulards are created by Reis craftsmen of only the purest unweighted silks, hand-sewn and fully lined. When you tie one on, you'll know it's a Reis." Reis were based in New Haven, Connecticut. - 1970 — Moulin (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
From Reis of New Haven, 1970 Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Same sett as #4490. Ref to Reis reads: ""Our exclusive English hand-blocked silk foulards are created by Reis craftsmen of only the purest unweighted silks, hand-sewn and fully lined. When you tie one on, you'll know it's a Reis." Reis were based in New Haven, Connecticut. - 1970 — Moulin Fashion Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 1970 (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: 3029
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5655
Thread count
R/144 K12 DY12 DR4 DY12 K12 R16 DY24 K4 DR/8
One full sett is 344 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s10/r36k3dy3dr1dy3k3r4dy6k1dr2~x4/