Dallas Family Tartan
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 WBWBWBWWGGW.
Part of the Dallas tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=7513
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1980 In February 2010 Dr Phil Smith provided information that a Dr. Dallas said he had first seen the Dallas tartan in the 1940s in the home of an old woman in the Carse of Gowrie (near Dundee). This pattern has been woven by Lochcarron. It is similar but not exactly the same as another version woven by D C Dalgliesh in the 1980s when he supplied a kilt length to US kiltmaker Kathy Lare of New Mexico.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1980 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
LB/158 N4 LB20 N12 W4 N12 LB20 W4 G20 Gi12 W/4
One full sett is 378 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| G | #007460 #007460 | oklch(49.9% 0.094 175.1) |
| 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) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.71 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/lb79n2lb10n6w2n6lb10w2g10gi6w2x2gi2004173/