Wood 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 KGKGKGBRGRGRGRGRBGKGKWK.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 23 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10359

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 28/10/2010 — Wood Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
    The Dress tartan is the Wood Clan/Family design (STA #6630) with its characteristic five red stripes expanded to dominate, the other colours and design features pro-rata. This is in accordance with the traditional dress tartan: bright and mostly red. Both Wood tartans have been approved by the Chief of Clan Wood. For information on this tartan, please contact the secretary of the Clan Wood Society by emailing scotswood1@btinternet.com.
  • 28th Oct. 2010 — Wood Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
    The Dress tartan is the Wood Clan/Family design (STA #6630) with its characteristic five red stripes expanded to dominate, the other colours and design features pro-rata. This is in accordance with the traditional dress tartan: bright and mostly red. Both Wood tartans have been approved by the Chief of Clan Wood. For information on this tartan, please contact the secretary of the Clan Wood Society by emailing scotswood1@btinternet.com.
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
28/10/2010 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  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

K/2 Y2 K4 G2 K2 G20 DB16 R20 G4 R20 G4 R60 G4 R20 G4 R20 DB16 G20 K2 G2 K4 W2 K/2

One full sett is 500 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

K/2 Y2 K4 G2 K2 G20 DB16 R20 G4 R20 G4 R60 G4 R20 G4 R20 DB16 G20 K2 G2 K4 W2 K/2 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.

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