Alexander of Menstry 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 BWWKBGBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=48
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2005 — Alexander of Menstry Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
The old spelling of Menstry (with a 'y') is used to avoid any impression that 'Alexander of Menstrie' refers to a baronial landholding. Designed by Raydon Eiland Alexander of San Antonio, Texas in 2002, it is aimed at the many Alexander descendants from Menstrie (at the foot of the Ochil Hills in Clackmannanshire). The purple and green block in this design represent the heather and grass of the Ochils. The white and blue of #47 (Register of Tartans reference) have been reversed, echoing the flag and arms of Nova Scotia, founded by one of the most famous Alexanders of Menstrie - the first Earl of Stirling. The ten threads of blue are for the ten Alexanders (nine siblings and their father) who crossed the Atlantic to Virginia in 1669 and from whom most of this surname in the south of the USA are likely to have descended. - pre 2005 — Alexander of Menstry Dress (Personal (tartans-authority, record)
The old spelling of Menstry (with a 'y') is used to avoid any impression that 'Alexander of Menstrie' refers to a baronial landholding. Designed by Raydon Eiland Alexander of San Antonio, Texas in 2002, it is aimed at the many Alexander descendants who first took that family name in Menstrie (at the foot of the Ochil Hills in Clackmannanshire).The purple and green block in this design represent the heather and grass of the Ochils. The white and blue of 6713 and 6715 have been reveresed, echoing the flag and arms of Nova Scotia, founded by one of the most famous Alexanders of Menstrie - the first Earl of Stirling. The ten threads of blue are for the ten Alexanders (nine siblings and their father) who crossed the Atlantic to Virginia in 1669 and from whom most of this surname in the south of the USA are likely to have descended.
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
- 2005 (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: 48
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6716
Thread count
DB/10 W60 LB18 K18 DP18 G4 DP4 G/10
One full sett is 264 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) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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.
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