Alberta 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 WGWGKBKBKY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=40
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/2000 — Alberta Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by 12 year old Ashley Stokowy and her Highland Dancing teacher Gail Danyst with help from Lochcarron of Scotland. Produced for The Scottish Shoppe of Calgary in May 2000. Approved by the Alberta Legislature in 2000 (Bill No. 205) and unveiled at Scotdance 2000 - the North American Highland Dancing Championships. Lochcarron swatch. - Jul. 2000 — Alberta Dress (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by 12 year old Ashley Stokowy and her Highland Dancing teacher Gail Danyst with help from Lochcarron of Scotland. Proposed by Alberta Community Development (an Alberta Govt. Dept.). Produced for The Scottish Shoppe of Calgary in May 2000. Approved by the Alberta Lergislature in 2000 (Bill No. 205) and unveiled at Scotdance 2000 - the North American Highland Dancing Championships. Lochcarron swatch. Blue is for Aberta skies, green for the rolling farmlands, golod for the wheat, pink for the wild rose and black for the coal and oil.
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
- 01/07/2000 (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: 40
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4218
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2729
Thread count
W/8 G6 W38 G16 K2 DR8 K2 B36 K2 LO/4
One full sett is 232 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/w4g3w19g8k1dr4k1b18k1lo2~x2/