Colquhoun 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 BKBKBKYBYBBBYBYKYGBGYK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=717
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1960 — Colquhoun Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
This asymmetric thread count was noted by the Scottish Tartans Society on 25 January 1984 stating that it was produced by Johnstons of Elgin circa 1960. - 1960 — Colquhoun Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This asymmetrtic thread count was noted by the STS on 25 Jan 1984 stating that it was produced by Johnstons of Elgin circa 1960.
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
- 1960 (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: 717
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1960
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1960
Thread count
K/30 LR4 G28 DR4 G28 LR4 K30 LR6 DB6 LR38 DB4 DR4 DB4 LR36 DB6 LR6 K30 DB20 K4 DB4 K4 DB/20
One full sett is 590 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/k15lr2g14dr2g14lr2k15lr3db3lr19db2dr2db2lr18db3lr3k15db10k2db2k2db10~x2/