MacTavish 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 BBKWKY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2769
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1850 — MacTavish Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Approved by the Lord Lyon in 1958. Designed for Lord Thomson of Fleet in 1958 based on a sample in the Moy Hall collection dating from the mid 19th century. In 1998 it was agreed by Dugald MacTavish of Dunardry 26th Chief to be the 'dress' Clan tartan. - pre 2002 — MacTavish Dress (tartans-authority, record)
Approved by the Lord Lyon in 1958. Designed for Lord Thomson of Fleet in 1958 based on a sample in the Moy Hall collection dating from the mid 19th century. In 1998 it was agree by Dugald MacTavish of Dunardry 26th Chief to be the 'dress' Clan tartan.
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
- 1850 (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: 2769
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1383
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1383
Thread count
DR/8 T56 K12 LB24 K24 LO/6
One full sett is 246 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 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/dr4t28k6lb12k12lo3x2t2503227-lb3200000/