Stewart/Stuart Dress (Four red lines)
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 RKRGWBYBKWRWRWRWRWKBYBWGRKRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 28 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3946
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
- 1819 (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: 3946
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1849
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1849
Thread count
R/4 K3 R15 G42 W5 DB3 LO3 DB13 K13 W66 R4 W2 R2 W10 R2 W2 R4 W66 K13 DB13 LO3 DB3 W5 G42 R15 K3 R4 W/2
One full sett is 718 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s28/r4k3r15g42w5db3lo3db13k13w66r4w2r2w10r2w2r4w66k13db13lo3db3w5g42r15k3r4w2/