Cowan of Inveresk (Personal)
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 GBKBKWGR.
Part of the Cowan of Inveresk tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1549
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1982 — Cowan of Inveresk (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Woven by Lochcarron as a family tartan for Bob Cowan of Atlanta GA. Specimen presented by Calders Kiltmakers in Perth at the request of Bob Cowan. STS notes: This is a modern family tartan designed by the representer of the family of Cowan of Inveresk, in the parish of that name in Musselburgh. Mr Robert Cowan of Atlanta, Georgia. Cowans are associated with the Colquhouns, variously spelt Macillechomhghain, Comhain, Comhan and Cowen. Cowans not associated with the Inveresk branch of the family may wear the Colquhoun tartan on which this design is based. (P.E.MacDonald, 1982). - undated — Cowan, of Inveresk (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1982 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 1549
Thread count
R/8 G32 W4 K30 DB30 K4 DB4 Y/4
One full sett is 220 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/r4g16w2k15db15k2db2y2~x2/