Dundee 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 GBWWGWKWGWRKRR.
Part of the Dundee Dress 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=1034
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Dundee Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Slight differences in this Scottish Tartans Society version in which the comment is made: 'original index card confused'. This count for Dundee Dress came from a cloth sample from the Wee Shop in the USA which is in the Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. - pre 2002 — Dundee Dress #1 (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Slight diferences in this Tartans Society version in which the comment is made: "original index card confused". This count for Dundee Dress came from a cloth sample from the Wee Shoppe in the USA which is in the Johnston Collection.
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: 1034
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 691
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 691
Thread count
R/72 Ri4 K32 Ri4 W38 Y8 W4 K4 W4 Y8 W24 LB4 DB20 G/20
One full sett is 400 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) |
| 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) |
| R | #E87878 #E87878 | oklch(70.0% 0.139 21.2) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| 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/s14/r36ri2k16ri2w19y4w2k2w2y4w12lb2db10g10x2r2109032-ri2806019/