Buchanan Dress, Blue (Dance)
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 RWBWBW.
Part of the Buchanan Dress tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1672
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 2003 One of a number of dress tartans produced by Hugh Macpherson, a kiltmaker in Edinburgh, intended for dancing and other informal occassions. The 'dress' version of clan tartan is usually created by substituting white for one of the 'ground' colours.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1983 — Buchanan Dress, Blue (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
One of a number of dress tartans produced by Hugh Macpherson, a kiltmaker in Edinburgh, intended for dancing and other informal occasions. The 'dress' version of clan tartan is usually created by substituting white for one of the 'ground' colours. Dalgliesh weave. Woven sample. - pre 2003 — Buchanan Dress Blue Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Buchanan, dress Blue (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
- 1983 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 1672
Thread count
W/10 DB32 W10 DB32 W66 R/6
One full sett is 296 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.03 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/w5db16w5db16w33r3~x2/