Innes Dress, Red (Dance)

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 BKYBYBYBYBBBKGKBY.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 17 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3384

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • pre 2002 — Innes Dress, Red (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
    Could well be a Dancers' Fancy rather than Clan/Family
  • undated — Innes Red, Dress (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
    Could well be a Dancers' Fancy rather than Clan/Family.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Tartans Authority
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
data date
pre 2002 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

LR/6 DR4 K6 G12 K4 DR4 DB8 DR4 LO6 DR8 LR6 DR4 LR6 DR4 LR40 K4 T/6

One full sett is 252 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#00879F #00879Foklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LR#FF9C97 #FF9C97oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2)

Sample pattern

LR/6 DR4 K6 G12 K4 DR4 DB8 DR4 LO6 DR8 LR6 DR4 LR6 DR4 LR40 K4 T/6 tartan

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.

Palmer, General W.J.Harmon DressMacLean of Duart #6MacLean of Duart Clan TartanHarmon Dress (Personal)Unidentified #31Harmon Dress Name TartanWilson's No.156Macan of Lurgyvallan Portrait TartanOnenessgroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s17/t3k2lr20dr2lr3dr2lr3dr4lo3dr2db4dr2k2g6k3dr2lr3~x2/

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