Cockburn of Ormiston 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 RKGKGKBKWKBGKGKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=705
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1930s Marketed in Edinburgh around 1930s but no longer seen.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1930 — Cockburn of Ormiston Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
From the McGregor Hastie Collection. Apparently it was being sold in Edinburgh in the 1930s but doesn't appear to have been seen since. MaGegor-Hastie collection is found in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - 1930 — Cockburn of Ormiston Dress Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 1930s — Cockburn of Ormiston Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
From the McGregor Hastie Collection. Apparently it was being sold in Edinburgh in the 1930s but doesn't appear to have been seen since. - undated — Cockburn of Ormiston, 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
- 1930 (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: 705
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1579
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1579
Thread count
W/62 K4 G4 K4 G4 DB16 K4 W4 K4 DB16 K4 Y4 K4 G16 K4 R/4
One full sett is 250 threads.

Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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.
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