Angus Dress 1992 (Dance)
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 KRKBWBRBRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=90
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/05/1992 — Angus Dress 1992 (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
Made for Highland dance competition in 1992. A modification of the Angus Tartan found in W.A.K.Johnston's 'Tartans of the Clans & Septs of Scotland' 1906 (#1179, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). Source said to be Kati Reeder Meek (USA). Scottish Tartans Society classify as 'District' but Scottish Tartans Authority regards as 'Fashion' until documentary evidence of official acceptance is provided. Thread count and colours confirmed to Scottish Tartans Authority by Kati Meek 23 June 2004. - May 1992 — Angus Dress 1992 (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
Made for Highland dance competition in 1992. A modification of the Angus Tartan found in W.A.K.Johnston's 'Tartans of the Clans & Septs of Scotland' 1906. (# 1179) . Source said to be Kati Reeder Meek (USA) STS classify as 'District' but STA regards as 'Dance' until documentary evidence of official acceptance is provided. Thread count and colours confirmed to BW by Kati Meek 23 June 2004, - undated — Angus dress (weddslist, record)
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
- 01/05/1992 (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: 90
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2473
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2473
Thread count
K/6 R2 K64 DB12 W40 DB4 R2 DB4 R2 DB4 R/6
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s11/k3r1k32db6w20db2r1db2r1db2r3~x2/