Salem Scottish Dancers (Dance) #2
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 BBBWBBWBWBBWBB.
Part of the Salem Scottish Dancers tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3641
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2000 — Salem Scottish Dancers (Dance) #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by the House of Edgar presumably for the Salem (MA) Scottish Dancers.TECAnotes say 'Sample from Sally Dee, Kiltmaker, Salem Mass. 2000.' Phil Smith notes (November 2003) 'This design was taken from a sample of a commercial felt swatch sent to me by Sally Dee.' 'Wee Bluett' is apparently phonetic for 'We blew it!' but who said that about what is not known. - 26/02/2001 — Salem Scottish Dancers (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by the House of Edgar presumably for the Salem (MA) Scottish Dancers. TECA notes say 'Sample from Sally Dee, Kiltmaker, Salem Mass. 2000 from the Boston Area Massachusetts USA circa, 1974. Phil Smith notes (November 2003) 'This design was taken from a sample of a commercial felt swatch sent to me by Sally Dee.' 'Wee Bluett' is apparently phonetic for 'We blew it!' but who said that about what is not known.
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
- 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: 3641
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4136
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2811
Thread count
T/10 DT60 W8 DT8 T36 W6 DT6 W6 T36 DT8 W8 DT60 T10 DT/10
One full sett is 524 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #2888C4 #2888C4 | oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s14/dt5t5dt30w4dt4t18w3dt3w3t18dt4w4dt30t5~x2/