Thomas Newcomen's Combustion Engine
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 BWRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10849
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 03/04/2013 — Thomas Newcomen's Combustion Engine (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed to commemorate the invention of the steam engine by Thomas Newcomen in 1712 and the importance of combustion engines (first external, now internal) in the last three centuries. Colours: black recalls the iron from which the engines and boilers are made as well as the coal and oil that they burn, its dominance in the tartan gives a dark industrial appearance; red represents fire; white represents steam and smoke and blue represents the air (oxygen) required for combustion as well as water. - 2013 — Thomas Newcomen's Combustion Engine (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was designed to commemorate the invention of the steam engine by Thomas Newcomen in 1712 and the importance of combustion engines (first external, now internal) in the last three centuries. Colours: black recalls the iron from which the engines and boilers are made as well as the coal and oil that they burn, its dominance in the tartan gives a dark industrial appearance; red represents fire; white represents steam and smoke and blue represents the air (oxygen) required for combustion as well as water.
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
- 03/04/2013 (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: 10849
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10849
Thread count
K/28 R20 W12 DB/8
One full sett is 100 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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.
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