Black and White Colourway
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 BRBWBGBGWGWGWGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=272
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Black and White Colourway (register-of-tartans, record)
Sindex notes compiled by the Scottish Tartans Society say both this and STR #271 were used by James Buchanan & Co for a range of promotional material named Black & White. - pre 2002 — Black & White Colourway (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Not sure what is meant by the use of the term 'Colourway' but Sindex notes say both this and #2042 were used by James Buchanan & Co., for a range of promotional material named Black & White.
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: 272
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2006
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2006
Thread count
W/40 DY6 W40 DY6 W18 DY24 W6 DY30 DB6 DY12 DB38 W6 DB10 R8 DB/38
One full sett is 498 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s15/w20dy3w20dy3w9dy12w3dy15db3dy6db19w3db5r4db19~x2/