Gillies Red Dress
Bands: BWBWKRGRKY · Stripes: T W T W K R DG R K LY T W T W K R DG R K LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1345
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1986 — Gillies Red Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1986 — Gillies Dress, Red (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1345
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 639
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 639
Thread count
B/4 W6 B4 W48 K20 R16 DG8 R24 K4 Y/12

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #5C8CA8 #5C8CA8 | B #2A418A | 0.23 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006100 | 0.15 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
| Y | #D8B000 #D8B000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.06 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Gillies, dress Red — ΔT 0.61
- Victoria (Wilsons) — ΔT 0.97
- Oor Wullie (DC Thomson) — ΔT 1.06
- Victoria Highland Dress — ΔT 1.07
- Dundee (2003) — ΔT 1.08
- Oor Wullie (Corporate) — ΔT 1.15
- Catalunya Escocia — ΔT 1.15
- Harrods — ΔT 1.18
- Harrods (Corporate) — ΔT 1.18
- Kintyre — ΔT 1.22
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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