Edinburgh Dress (Dance)
In pattern RGBBGBGWKW.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1078
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1983 — Edinburgh Dress (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — Edinburgh Dress District Tartan Tartan Number: 1461. Earliest known date: Edinburgh 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. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 (house-of-tartan, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1078
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1461
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1461
Thread count
W/8 K4 W60 G6 P6 G6 P14 DB28 G6 R/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| P | #780078 #780078 | B #2A418A | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Edinburgh, dress — ΔT 0.41
- Alexander of Menstry Dress — ΔT 0.97
- St. Andrews Management School — ΔT 0.99
- Scotland the Brave Dress (Dance) — ΔT 1.08
- MacLean of Duart Dress #5 — ΔT 1.10
- Letang Family (Neuilly sur Seine, France) (Personal) — ΔT 1.11
- Tom Morris (Official) — ΔT 1.13
- Stewart Dress MINI Tartan Tartan Number: 11790. Earliest known date: See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.15
- Fothergill (Personal) — ΔT 1.15
- Alberta Dress — ΔT 1.17
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14299 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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