Blair Dress
Bands: BRBKGRGRGKWRW · Stripes: DB R DB K DG R DG R DG K W R W DB R DB K DG R DG R DG K W R W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=292
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1989 — Blair Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1989 — Blair Dress (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 292
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 483
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 483
Thread count
DB/4 DR4 DB24 K10 G24 DR4 G4 DR4 G24 K10 LN28 DR4 LN/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #000060 #000060 | B #2A418A | 0.18 |
| DR | #880000 #880000 | R #CC0000 | 0.15 |
| G | #004800 #004800 | G #006100 | 0.08 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| N | #B0B0B0 #B0B0B0 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.18 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Scottish National Dress — ΔT 0.54
- Gordon Dress #2 — ΔT 0.59
- MacSporran — ΔT 0.62
- Gordon, dress 4 — ΔT 0.72
- Bowlers — ΔT 0.78
- Unnamed, No 22 — ΔT 0.82
- Kinloch Anderson, hunting — ΔT 0.83
- MacKenzie Dress - 1950 (Clan) — ΔT 0.87
- Carnegie — ΔT 0.91
- Denovan, The Lairdship of.. — ΔT 0.91
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s13/db2r2db12k5dg12r2dg2r2dg12k5w14r2w2~x2/