Justus Black & Gold (Angus) (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 KYKYKYKYKYKYKYKY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1918
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1999 — Justus Black & Gold (Angus) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
One of 7 tartans created by Christopher Carlisle Justus in Hendersonville NC - 1986. Status not known and no evidence of actual commercial weaving although he appears to be a weaver (Sindex notes). Significance of (Angus) not known. This range of Justus 'tartans' are included for historical reasons only: were the Scottish Tartans Authority's asked to Register a range such as this, it would decline or at least limit the number to three and offer advice on tartan design. - Unknown — Justus Black & Gold (Angus) (Persona (tartans-authority, record)
One of 7 tartans created by Christopher Carlisle Justus in Hendersonville NC - 1986. Status not known and no evidence of actual commercial weaving although he appears to be a weaver (Sindex notes).. Significance of (Angus) not known. This range of Justus 'tartans' are included for historical reasons only: were the Scottish Tartans Authority asked to Register a range such as this, it would decline or at least limit the number to three and offer advice on tartan design.
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
- 1999 (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: 1918
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2732
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2732
Thread count
K/12 LY4 K32 LY36 K4 LY4 K4 LY4 K8 LY4 K4 LY4 K4 LY36 K32 LY/4
One full sett is 376 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s9/k3ly1k8ly9k1ly1k1ly1k2~x4/