Ogilvie (Black and White)
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 KWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 38 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3225
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 Full sett can be seen in STS files.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Ogilvie (Black and White) (register-of-tartans, record)
Trade sett, MacGregor-Hastie collection. Scottish Tartans Society archive. - pre 2002 — Ogilvie (B&W) (Fashion?) (tartans-authority, record)
No other details. - pre 2003 — Ogilvy B/W Trade Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Ogilvy, Black and White (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
- 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: 3225
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1250
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1250
Thread count
K/24 W4 K24 W4 K12 W4 K14 W12 K4 W12 K4 W4 K12 W4 K12 W4 K4 W24 K4 W24 K4 W24 K4 W4 K12 W4 K12 W4 K4 W12 K4 W12 K14 W4 K12 W4 K24 W/4
One full sett is 716 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) |
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/s20/k12w2k12w2k6w2k7w6k2w6k2w2k6w2k6w2k2w12k2w12~x2/