MacLean of Duart Dress #5
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 KWBWRKRKGKBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2616
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 Dress form of MacLean of Duart. Count taken from a sample in Reproduction colours
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — MacLean of Duart Dress #5 (register-of-tartans, record)
Dress form of MacLean of Duart. Count taken from a sample in Reproduction colours. Woven as a dance tartan by D.C. Dalgliesh of Selkirk. - pre 2002 — MacLean of Duart Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Dress form of MacLean of Duart. Count taken from a sample in Reproduction colours. Woven as a dance tartan by D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. - pre 2003 — MacLean Dress Burgundy Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — MacLean, dress Burgundy (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
- 2002 (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: 2616
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 59
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 59
Thread count
LB/24 DB4 K8 Y4 K6 R6 K6 R38 W62 DB4 W8 K/4
One full sett is 320 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s12/lb12db2k4y2k3r3k3r19w31db2w4k2~x2/