Cunningham Dress Burgundy (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 GRKRWRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=847
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.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1986 — Cunningham Dress Burgundy (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
Same as #563 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) but yellow replaces blue. Designed by Hugh Macpherson the Edinburgh Kiltmaker who designed a number of dress tartans for use by dancers. The conventional method of producing a 'dress' version of a tartan is to replace one of the ground colours with white or light grey. Hugh however seems to favour variations on the same design since he has used setts very similar for two Culloden Dress tartans (#742 & #1792 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference)). Now a Dalgliesh weave. - 1986 — Cunningham Dress, Burgundy (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
Same as 563 but yellow replaces blue. Designed by Hugh Macpherson the Edinburgh Kiltmaker who designed a number of dress tartans for use by dancers. The conventional method of producing a 'dress' version of a tartan is to replace one of the ground colours with white or light grey. Hugh however seems to favour variations on the same design since he has used setts very similar for two Culloden Dress tartans (742 & 1792). Now a Dalgliesh weave. - pre 2003 — Cunningham Burgandy Dress Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Cunningham, Burgundy dress (weddslist, record)
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
- 1986 (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: 847
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1873
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1873
Thread count
W/10 R4 W68 R68 K4 R4 Y/8
One full sett is 314 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s7/w5r2w34r34k2r2y4~x2/