Black from Cumnock (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 BKBKBKGGGKBKB.
Part of the Breadalbane Fencibles tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4925
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1890 — Black from Cumnock (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
This restricted family tartan is taken from a photograph (circa 1890) of James William Black Sr as a child. The sett is small like a check. Here it has been expanded for highland dress use. - undated — Campbell of Breadalbane (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan is illustrated in the following: Thomas Smibert “The Clans of the Highlands of Scotland” 1850 plate No:8 D.W.Stewart Old and Rare Scottish Tartans.1893 D.C Stewart The Setts of the Scottish Tartans 1950 The thread count was displayed by: J. Logan The Scottish Gael. 1831 - undated — Campbell of Breadalbane (weddslist, record)
- undated — Breadalbane Fencibles (weddslist, 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
- 1890 (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: 4925
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3061
Thread count
DB/16 K2 DB2 K2 DB2 K16 Y2 G28 Y2 K16 DB16 K2 DB/2
One full sett is 198 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) |
| 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/db8k1db1k1db1k8y1g14y1k8db8k1db1~x2/