Redwood Dress (Fashion)

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 BBGBGBWBG.

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

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 9 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5423

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
pre 1972 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Thread count

DG/12 DR4 LB20 DR4 DG8 DR4 DG4 DR36 DO/8

One full sett is 180 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
DG#053819 #053819oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3)
DO#412714 #412714oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7)
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)

Sample pattern

DG/12 DR4 LB20 DR4 DG8 DR4 DG4 DR36 DO/8 tartan

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 0.30 — 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 (top) woven against the master sett (bottom) this sett master sett ★
One weave of this sett against the master sett ★, split on the diagonal: a shared proportion runs seamlessly across it with only the shades shifting; a different proportion breaks on it.

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.

Redwood DressConvention of the Baronage (Corp)BaronageGlen Tilt #1Glenfinnan (Clan?)Fraser GreenUnidentified Plaid #15UnnamedLoch Rannoch Trade TartanAntrim County, Crest Rangegroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s9/dg3dr1lb5dr1dg2dr1dg1dr9do2~x4/

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