Scott Black and Grey
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 BKBKBKB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3696
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1948 — Scott Black and Grey (register-of-tartans, record)
Worn by the Peebles Army Training Corps Pipe Band (c.1948). This collection is found in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - 1948 — Scott Black & Grey (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Apparently worn by the Peebles Army Training Corps Pipe Band (c.1948) From the MacGregor Hastie collection. The sett is the same as 1825 with the white changed to grey.
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
- 1948 (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: 3696
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1287
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1287
Thread count
N/16 K6 N34 K26 N12 K6 N/8
One full sett is 192 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/n8k3n17k13n6k3n4~x2/