MacGregor Turquoise Dress Fashion Tartan

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 BKWWWW.

Part of the MacGregor Turquoise Dress tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 6 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=8193

Provenance

Earliest known date: Threadcount and colours aren't 100% original. Generated manually.

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
House of Tartan
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
data date
2017-01-10 (dataset default)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. House of Tartan
    the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity
  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

Thread count

W/104 LB44 W12 LB16 K2 DP/6

One full sett is 258 threads.

The source recorded this cloth as W/104 LB44 W12 LB16 K2 DP6 K2 LB16 W12 LB/44 — 368 threads; it folds to the canonical 258-thread sett above.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

W/104 LB44 W12 LB16 K2 DP/6 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 13656 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.

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ID: /variants/s6/w52lb22w6lb8k1dp3~x2/

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