Erskine (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 KWKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1122
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 Possibly a dress tartan based on the sett recorded in the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. The tartan is manufactured by Dalgliesh of Selkirk.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1980 — Erskine (Black and White) (register-of-tartans, record)
Seems like a dress version of the Vestiarium Scoticum sett. Woven by D.C. Dalgliesh of Selkirk. Probably Hugh MacPherson design. Now widely accepted as a genuine Erskine tartan. - 1980 — Erskine Black & White (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Seems like a dress version of the Vestiarium Scoticum sett. Woven by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. Probably Hugh MacPherson design. Now widely accepted as a genuine Erskine tartan. - pre 2003 — Erskine BW or Ramsay Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Erskine, or Ramsay (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
- 1980 (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: 1122
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1246
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1246
Thread count
K/12 W6 K54 W54 K6 W/12
One full sett is 264 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/s6/k2w1k9w9k1w2~x6/