Recovery 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 RKWGBGBGBGBWBWBGBGBGBGWKY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 25 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3474
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/04/1998 — Recovery Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
A non-repeating sett for Castlecraig Renewal Clinics Ltd. Lochcarron weave of February 1998. Blue ground should be verging on black. Castle Craig, located in the Scottish Borders, is run by Castle Craig Hospital Ltd. It is a residential hospital for the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction. The hospital and treatment are under medical direction and it is recognised by the major medical insurers for the treatment of addictive disease. The hospital is a prime and extra contractor to the National Health Service. - 1998 — Recovery Dress (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
A non-repeating sett for Castlecraig Renewal Clinics Ltd. Lochcarron weave of February 1998.Blue ground should be verging on black. Castle Craig, located in the Scottish Borders, is run by Castle Craig Hospital Ltd. It is a residential hospital for the treatment of alcoholism and drug addiction. The hospital and treatment are under medical direction and it is recognised by the major medical insurers for the treatment of addictive disease. The hospital is a prime and extra contractor to the National Health Service.
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
- 01/04/1998 (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: 3474
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2441
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2441
Thread count
R/4 K4 W32 DG4 DB4 DG4 DB4 DG4 DB4 DG4 DB32 W4 DB8 W4 DB32 DG4 DB4 DG4 DB4 DG4 DB4 DG4 W32 K4 LO/4
One full sett is 424 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| 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/s25/r1k1w8dg1db1dg1db1dg1db1dg1db8w1db2w1db8dg1db1dg1db1dg1db1dg1w8k1lo1~x4/