Mounth, The

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 BGBWBWBBG.

Part of the Mounth, The tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3032

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/1988 — Mounth, The (register-of-tartans, record)
    Successful design by Jamie Scarlett MBE for the Kincardine & Deeside Branch of the National Trust for Scotland. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Scarlett Collection.
  • 1988 — Mounth, The (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
    Successful design by Jamie Scarlett for the Kincardine & Deeside Branch of the National Trust for Scotland. Sample in STA's Scarlett Collection.
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
1988 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DG/4 N26 T24 W6 T20 W6 T24 G26 DP/4

One full sett is 272 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#00879F #00879Foklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
DG#006818 #006818oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0)
G#408060 #408060oklch(54.8% 0.084 160.1)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

DG/4 N26 T24 W6 T20 W6 T24 G26 DP/4 tartan

Nearest tartan variants

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.

ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
272
sett
456
sett

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.

Deeside Plaid (Taobh Dhi)groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s9/dg2n13t12w3t10w3t12g13dp2x2dg1806142-g2203152/

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