Hawick Dress (District)
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 BKYKWKGBWBKWKYKBKYKWKGBWBGKWKYK.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 31 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2409
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Dec. 1996 — Hawick Dress (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Dress version of original district tartan designed by Andrew Elliot or Kenneth Hood of Andrew Elliot Ltd, Forest Mill, Galashiels, Scotland. Robin Elliot says that despite this being the same sett as their Hawick tartan, this is not their doing and they've never designed it or woven it. Estimated thread count for display purposes only. Scottish Tartans Society records that it was designed by Kenneth Hood of the Hawick Tartan Company: "For the town of Hawick and officially recognised by the Hon. Provost Mrs Myra Turnbull. It is unusual since it contains seven colours to incorporate all those associated with th town." - 01/01/1997 — Hawick Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Dress version of original district tartan designed by Andrew Elliot or Kenneth Hood of Andrew Elliot Ltd, Forest Mill, Galashiels, Scotland. Robin Elliot says that despite this being the same sett as their Hawick tartan, this is not their doing and they've never designed it or woven it. Estimated thread count for display purposes only. Possibly designed by Kenneth Hood.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- Dec. 1996 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 1629
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2409
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2409
Thread count
K/4 LO4 K6 W4 K4 G32 DR4 W48 DR4 G32 K4 W4 K6 LO4 K8 DB8 K8 LO4 K6 W4 K4 DB24 W48 DR4 G24 K4 W4 K6 LO4 K8 DB/4
One full sett is 656 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
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/s31/k2lo2k3w2k2g16dr2w24dr2g16k2w2k3lo2k4db4k4lo2k3w2k2db12w24dr2g12k2w2k3lo2k4db2~x2/