Argyle Dress
Bands: BKGKBKRKBKWBWBWBWBWKGK · Stripes: DB K G K DB K R K DB K W DB W DB W DB W DB W K G K DB K G K DB K R K DB K W DB W DB W DB W DB W K G K
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5092
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1985 — Argyle Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- pre 1985 — Argyle Dress (Patons) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 5092
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3602
Thread count
DB/8 K6 G34 K34 DB30 K6 R8 K6 DB30 K34 LN6 DB8 LN50 DB6 LN12 DB6 LN50 DB8 LN6 K34 G34 K/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- MacKenzie Dress #4 — ΔT 0.37
- MacKenzie, dress — ΔT 0.54
- Highfield Dress — ΔT 0.57
- Gordon Dress (Original) — ΔT 0.58
- Colquhoun, dress — ΔT 0.61
- Campbell of Loch Neil Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1963. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Sample 1984 See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.63
- Colquhoun Dress — ΔT 0.64
- Gordon dress — ΔT 0.72
- Campbell of Loch Neil Dress — ΔT 0.81
- Campbell #2 — ΔT 0.84
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.
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