Mowat, Sir Oliver
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 BBYBYBGBGBGBGBYBYBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 19 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3036
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2002 1820 - 1903. One of the Fathers of the Confederation. Premier of Ontario.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Mowat, Sir Oliver (register-of-tartans, record)
Sir Oliver Mowat, 1820 - 1903, 3rd Premier of Ontario, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario was one of the Fathers of Confederation. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. - pre 2002 — Mowat, Sir Oliver (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
1820 - 1903. One of the Fathers of the Confederation. Premier of Ontario. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. - pre 2002 — Mowat, Sir Oliver Commemorative 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
- 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: 3036
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5651
Thread count
G/12 DO4 LR6 DO4 LO6 DO4 G12 DR32 G8 DO6 G6 DO6 G32 DO4 LR6 DO4 LO6 DO4 DR/8
One full sett is 320 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/s19/g6do2lr3do2lo3do2g6dr16g4do3g3do3g16do2lr3do2lo3do2dr4~x2/