Dunlop
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 KRKWBRBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1045
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1982 Revised version
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1982 — Dunlop (register-of-tartans, record)
In 1974, Richard Dunlop, of Washington DC, the second President of the Dunlop Family Clan Society set out to establish a clan tartan for Dunlop. This was achieved in 1982 and #1197 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) was unveiled at Grandfather Mountain Games in that year. Two years later the hunting and dress were finalised. The design appears to have been a joint effort between Richard Dunlop and Charles Thompson. Samples in Scottish Tartans Authority Dalgety Collection. Woven by House of Edgar & Lochcarron. Count changed in March 2005 to accord with Scottish Tartans Society documentation of Nov. 1983. - 1982 — Dunlop (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
In 1974, Richard Dunlop, of Washington, DC, the second President of the Dunlop Family Clan Society set out to establish a clan tartan for Dunlop. This was achieved in 1982 and #1197 was unveiled at Grandfather Mountain Games in that year. Two years later the hunting and dress were finalised. The design appears to have been a joint effort between Richard Dunlop, Charles Thompson and possible Peter MacDonald. Samples in STA Dalgety Collection. Woven by House of Edgar & Lochcarron. Count changed in March 2005 to accord with STS documentation of Nov. 1983. - 1982 — Dunlop Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Dunlop (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
- 1982 (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: 1045
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1197
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1197
Thread count
K/6 R2 K60 W2 DB56 R2 DB2 W/6
One full sett is 260 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s8/k3r1k30w1db28r1db1w3~x2/