Cooper Dress Tartan
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 BWRWBWBKWBWGBKBWBR.
Part of the Cooper Dress tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=75
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1970-80 Modern White replaces green in this dress version of the Couper of Gogar family tartan. The original dates to circa 1886 when it was woven for the Gogar branch of the family by Peter MacArthur and Company in Hamilton. The dress version has been produced more recently. The Coupers of Gogar are also Baronets of Nova Scotia (1638).
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1970-80 — Cooper Dress Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- pre 1988 — Cooper Dress (Dalgliesh #1) (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
The status of this is not known i.e. is it a legitimate Dress version of the Clan Tartan or is it merely a Dance sett? This is the Couper of Gogar (74) with most of the green replaced with white. No 74 dates to around 1886 when it was woven for the Gogar branch of the family by Peter MacArthur and Company of Biggar (previously of Hamilton). This dress version is a relatively recent addition probably designed and certainly woven by D.C. Dalgliesh of Selkirk.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1970-80 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 75
Thread count
DB/4 LP8 R4 W52 DB6 W4 DB6 K20 LP6 DB4 LP6 G18 DB2 K2 DB42 LP6 DB4 R/4
One full sett is 388 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LP | #E4A6DB #E4A6DB | oklch(80.0% 0.100 331.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.24 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s18/db2lp4r2w26db3w2db3k10lp3db2lp3g9db1k1db21lp3db2r2~x2/