Scottish National Dress District Tartan
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 BWRWBGKGKGKBRBWBWBRBKGKGKG.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 26 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2160
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1994 In 1934 The National Association of Scottish Woollen Manufacturers designed a tartan they named 'National'. In 1994 Highland clothiers, McCalls of Aberdeen, designed and registered a tartan they called the 'National Dress' which appears to have retained some elements of the original design. The 'Dress' tartan was registered as a patented design, No. 601292, on 22nd March 1994.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1994 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DB/24 W22 R4 W22 DB24 DG22 K4 DG6 K4 DG22 K16 DB4 R4 DB4 W4 DB22 W4 DB4 R4 DB4 K16 DG22 K4 DG6 K4 DG/22
One full sett is 550 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) |
| 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/s26/db12w11r2w11db12dg11k2dg3k2dg11k8db2r2db2w2db11w2db2r2db2k8dg11k2dg3k2dg11~x2/