Robinson Dress (Pendleton) #1
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 GBRKRK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3538
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Robinson Dress (Pendleton) #1 (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society records state: 'From Pendleton: 'of Irish and Scottish origin this tartan is ancient and is worn on great family occasions by the clan. The maroon shade is the royal or styrian purple.' What historical evidence this is based on is not known but it's highly unlikely to have any substance since there is no evidence of tartan in the Irish world. Having said that however, the tartan seems to have been seized upon by/for Robinsons and no amount of academic huffing & puffing can undo that. Inquirie have been made at Pendleton of Oregon (May 2006) - pre 2002 — Robinson Dress (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Tartan Society records state: "From Pendleton: "of Irish and Scottish origin this tartan is ancient and is worn on great family occasions by the clan. The maroon shade is the royal or styrian purple." What historical evidence this is based on is not known but having said that, the tartan seems to have been seized upon by/for Robinsons. Inquiries have been made at Pendleton of Oregon (May 2006) but they do not know of this 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
- 2002 (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: 3538
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 739
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 739
Thread count
K/4 R28 K4 R28 DB64 G/4
One full sett is 256 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/k1r7k1r7db16g1~x4/