Rose White Dress
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 BWKGWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3549
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1950 — Rose White Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Although shown as 'White Dress' on the Rose Society US website, this doesn't appear to have general acceptance as a Dress Rose. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. This count comes from the MacGregor-Hastie sample whose collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. Offered as Dancer's tartan by D.C. Dalgliesh where the green next the red shown here is rendered in med. blue. - pre 1950 — Rose White Dress (tartans-authority, record)
Although shown as 'White Dress' on the Rose Society US website, this doesn't appear to have general acceptance as a Dress Rose. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. This count comes from the MacGregor-Hastie sample whose collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. Offered as Dancer's tartan by D C Dalgliesh where the green next the red shown here is rendered in med. blue.
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
- 1950 (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: 3549
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1227
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1227
Thread count
DR/96 LB16 K16 G16 W52 K/8
One full sett is 304 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s6/dr24lb4k4g4w13k2~x4/