Wallace Blue (Fashion)

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 WBWGW.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 5 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=46

Provenance

Earliest known date: pre 2003 The design is based on the sett from the Vestiarium Scoticum (1842).

3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • pre 1985 — Wallace Blue (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
    Of unknown origin. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. D.C. Dalgliesh weave. Sample also in STA Dalgety Collection.
  • pre 2003 — Wallace Blue Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
  • undated — Wallace, Blue Wallace (weddslist, record)
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 1985 (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

LB/4 DB58 LB24 G58 W/4

One full sett is 288 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

LB/4 DB58 LB24 G58 W/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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