Lauder Dress (Can)

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 BWBWKGRGKGBGBGKWBRBWKGBGBGKGRGKWBWBR.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 36 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1435

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
pre 2002 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DB/4 W52 DB5 W5 K26 DG25 R6 DG28 K25 DG3 DB26 DG6 DB25 DG3 K27 W50 DB4 R4 DB4 W50 K27 DG3 DB25 DG6 DB26 DG3 K25 DG28 R6 DG25 K26 W5 DB5 W52 DB4 R/4

One full sett is 1288 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

DB/4 W52 DB5 W5 K26 DG25 R6 DG28 K25 DG3 DB26 DG6 DB25 DG3 K27 W50 DB4 R4 DB4 W50 K27 DG3 DB25 DG6 DB26 DG3 K25 DG28 R6 DG25 K26 W5 DB5 W52 DB4 R/4 tartan

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.

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