Argyle 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 BKGKBKRKBKWBWBWBWBWKGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5092
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1985 — Argyle Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
In 1985 Stuart Davidson sent a colour strip to Jack Dalgety of a threadcount (presumably made from a sample) found amongst samples in the Patons of Tillicoultry collection. The card quite clearly states that the threadcount is for an asymmetric pattern. - pre 1985 — Argyle Dress (Patons) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. In 1985 Stuart Davidson sent a colour strip to Jack Dalgety of a thread count (presumably made from a sample) found amongst specimens in Patons of Tillicoultry collection. The card quite clearly states "This is an assymetric pattern." Jamie Scarlett says (12.11.02) that Patons were known as mavericks so no firm conclusions can be drawn as to the age of this sett.
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
- 1985 (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: 5092
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3602
Thread count
DB/8 K6 G34 K34 DB30 K6 R8 K6 DB30 K34 W6 DB8 W50 DB6 W12 DB6 W50 DB8 W6 K34 G34 K/6
One full sett is 830 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s22/db4k3g17k17db15k3r4k3db15k17w3db4w25db3w6db3w25db4w3k17g17k3~x2/