Newmill
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 BBBBBBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3130
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Newmill (register-of-tartans, record)
Newmill is the Johnstons of Elgin manufacturing centre. The tartan was designed by John Gillespie of Johnstons of Elgin for the refurbishment of the Newmill Mill Shop c1997 and based on the Mill Shop's 'house colours'. - pre 1997 — Newmill (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Newmill is the Johnstons HQ and manufacturing centre in Elgin. Designed by John Gillespie of Johnstons of Elgin for refurbishing of the new Mill Shop circa 1997 and based on the Mill Shop's 'house colours'. The lighter square is represented here as green from the 'antique' colour range.
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
- 1997 (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: 3130
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2053
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2053
Thread count
DR/8 N40 DT24 DB88 DT24 N40 LO/8
One full sett is 448 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 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/s7/dr1n5dt3db11dt3n5lo1~x8/