Campbell 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 WBWBWKGGGKBKBKBKGWGKWBWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 25 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5458
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1880 — Campbell Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
A dress version of the Campbell tartan first appeared in the Clans Originaux of 1880 - a tartan pattern book produced by a Parisian company called J Claude Freres et Cie. The 12th Duke refused to accept it as an official Campbell tartan. One of the 'dress' and 'hunting' versions of clan tartans included in 1906 by H Whyte, author of 'The Scottish Clans and Their Tartan' and others, 'The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland' published by W & A. K. Johnston, Edinburgh. - 1880 — Campbell Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
A dress version of the Campbell tartan first appeared in the Clans Originaux of 1880 - a tartan pattern book produced by a Parisian company called J. Claude Freres et Cie. The 12th Duke refused to accept it as an official Campbell tartan. The present (13th) Duke has also done likewise (March 2015). This is not the Originaux version (see 4429 for that) which had no tramlines on the blue. It's not known exactly where this version shown at No. 19 originated.
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
- 1880 (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: 5458
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 19
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 19
Thread count
W/8 T4 W32 T8 W6 K16 G16 Y4 G16 K16 T16 K4 T8 K4 T16 K16 G16 W4 G16 K16 W6 T8 W32 T4 W/8
One full sett is 584 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/w4t2w16t4w3k8g8y2g8k8t8k2t4k2t8k8g8w2g8k8w3t4w16t2w4~x2/