Blackstock Red (Dress)
In pattern YGKRKRY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=289
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1983 — Blackstock Red (Dress) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1983 — Blackstock, Red Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
DY/8 DR4 K4 DR44 K24 Ga28 DY/8

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DG | #002008 #002008 | K #000000 | 0.22 |
| DR | #B00000 #B00000 | R #C80000 | 0.05 |
| DY | #C89800 #C89800 | Y #E8C000 | 0.12 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| Ga | #285800 #285800 | G #006400 | 0.04 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Blackstock, dress — ΔT 0.69
- Strathspey, Check — ΔT 0.70
- Dickie — ΔT 0.81
- Blackstock Dress Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1881. Earliest known date: 1982 Commissioned by Herbert Earl Blackstock in 1983, President of the Clan Blackstock Society in the USA. Blackstocks were a 'Scotch-Irish' family who emigrated to the US from Ulster. Designed by kiltmaker and historian Bob Martin of Greenville, South Carolina. www.clanblackstocksociety.com See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.81
- MacMillan Varient (Unidentified) — ΔT 0.83
- Island of Innis, The — ΔT 0.84
- Manson Family Tartan Tartan Number: 987. Earliest known date: 1983 The official recording of the sett shows the letter G for the dark green stripe. In heraldic terms this means 'Gules' - red. The designer, Hugh Kirkwood Rankine, clearly intended dark green and this is reproduced here. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.87
- Wcwm 1062 — ΔT 0.96
- Montrose — ΔT 0.98
- MacNaughton — ΔT 0.99
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 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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