Common Kilt Tartan
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 BRKGKBKR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=554
Provenance
Earliest known date: c. 1790 A version of the Blatck Watch tartan produced by Wilson's of Bannockburn before the widespread use of clan names for tartan. The military Black Watch tartan was also woven with a red stripe.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- c. 1790 — Common Kilt Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1819 — Common Kilt (register-of-tartans, record)
A version of the Black Watch tartan produced by Wilson's of Bannockburn before the widespread use of clan names for tartan. The military Black Watch tartan was also woven with a red stripe. Wilsons of Bannockburn a weaving firm founded c1770 near Stirling. The Pattern books are in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. Copys of the Pattern books and letters in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - 1819? — Common Kilt (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Pattern Book 4? - undated — Common Kilt (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- c. 1790 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 720
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 554
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 554
Thread count
R/6 K4 DB50 K56 G50 K4 R2 DB/4
One full sett is 342 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/s8/r3k2db25k28g25k2r1db2~x2/