Taylor Dress
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 GGWBWGRGKG.
Part of the Taylor Dress tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4082
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1983 — Taylor Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
This fits the slog of the 'Arisaidh' designed by Col. Cameron Taylor for his wife circa 1965 but the Scottish Tartans Society notes say MacPherson. Tartan Society notes say 'one of a number of dress tartans produced by Edinburgh kilt maker Hugh Macpherson, intended for dancing and other informal occasions.' It is the conventional Taylor tartan with colour changes. Dalgliesh did a version of this where the red becomes pink. Scottish Taratans Society documentation registers this in 1983. - 1983 — Taylor Dress (Dance?) (tartans-authority, record)
This fits the slog of the 'Arisaidh' designed by Col. Cameron Taylor for his wife circa 1965 but the Tartan Society notes say "one of a number of dress tartans produced by Edinburgh kilt maker Hugh Macpherson, intended for dancing and other informal occasions." It is the conventional Taylor tartan with colour changes. Dalgliesh did a version of this where the red becomes pink - #5138. STS documentation registers this in 1983.
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
- 1983 (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: 4082
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 810
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 810
Thread count
G/18 K4 G30 R8 G28 W6 N6 W46 G10 DY/6
One full sett is 300 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s10/g9k2g15r4g14w3n3w23g5dy3~x2/