Gordon Dress
In pattern BKBKGYGKWBWBW.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1454
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1454
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 294
Thread count
B/8 K8 B20 K20 G26 Y6 G26 K20 LN8 B8 LN32 B4 LN/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #2C4084 #2C4084 | B #2A418A | 0.01 |
| G | #005020 #005020 | G #006100 | 0.07 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Gordon Dress Tartan Tartan Number: 294. Earliest known date: pre 2003 No source given See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.15
- Gordon Dress (1965) — ΔT 0.29
- MacKenzie Dress - 1950 (Clan) — ΔT 0.70
- Murray, dress White — ΔT 0.74
- Gordon Dress #2 — ΔT 0.74
- Manderson — ΔT 0.80
- Scottish National Dress — ΔT 0.83
- Land's End (Unnamed Maroon) (Personal) — ΔT 0.89
- MacKenzie Dress — ΔT 0.91
- Rainbow (Canada) — ΔT 1.02
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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.
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