Ewing
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 KRKRKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=11082
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2014 Following official recognition, this tartan was chosen by the new Commander of Clan Ewing, John Thor Ewing, as the Clan Ewing tartan. The tartan takes its inspiration from the plaid of John Ewing in Heiddykis of Kirkmichael (d.1609), described in his testament as 'sax ellis of reid & blak cullerit claith' The design relates to historical and traditional tartans from the areas and clans among which Clan Ewing has its roots. This tartan is woven to order by Lochcarron on behalf of Clan Ewing. All weavers must seek permission from John Thor Ewing as registrant and copyright holder.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 29/05/2014 — Ewing (register-of-tartans, record)
Following official recognition, this tartan was chosen by the new Commander of Clan Ewing, John Thor Ewing, as the Clan Ewing tartan. The tartan takes its inspiration from the plaid of John Ewing in Heiddykis of Kirkmichael (d.1609), described in his testament as 'sax ellis of reid & blak cullerit claith' The design relates to historical and traditional tartans from the areas and clans among which Clan Ewing has its roots. - 2014 — Ewing (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Following official recognition, this tartan was chosen by the new Commander of Clan Ewing, John Thor Ewing, as the Clan Ewing tartan. The tartan takes its inspiration from the plaid of John Ewing in Heiddykis of Kirkmichael (d.1609), described in his testament as 'sax ellis of reid & blak cullerit claith' The design relates to historical and traditional tartans from the areas and clans among which Clan Ewing has its roots. - 2014 — Ewing Clan 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
- 29/05/2014 (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: 11082
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 11082
Thread count
K/92 R12 K4 R48 K4 R/12
One full sett is 240 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s4/k23r3k1r12~x4/