Lockwood Family Tartan
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 BWBGKWRKRKRWKGGWKG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1308
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 Specimen from W.H. Johnston of Lockwood, U.S.A.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2003 — Lockwood Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Unidentified #39 (register-of-tartans, record)
Specimen from W.H. Johnston, U.S.A. found in a ladies attic in 1978. A number of opinions were sort and a piece was sent to the Scottish Tartans Society under the name Lockwood under which it was noted onto this register until 1998. Scottish Tartans Society archive.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2003 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 4240
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1308
Thread count
N/40 W4 DP140 Y4 K26 W20 R10 K2 R10 K2 R10 W20 K26 Y4 DY30 W44 K4 Y/4
One full sett is 756 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| 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/s18/n20w2dp70y2k13w10r5k1r5k1r5w10k13y2dy15w22k2y2~x2/