Gillies Red Dress
In pattern BWBWKRGRKY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripes 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)
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 #2C4084 | 0.23 |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | G #006400 | 0.16 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F4F4F0 | 0.03 |
| Y | #D8B000 #D8B000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.05 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Gillies Dress Red Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 639. Earliest known date: pre 2003 MacKinlay Scale See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.43
- Gillies, dress Red — ΔT 0.60
- Victoria (Wilsons) — ΔT 0.97
- Oor Wullie (DC Thomson) — ΔT 1.06
- Victoria Highland Dress — ΔT 1.07
- Dundee (2003) — ΔT 1.07
- Oor Wullie (Corporate) — ΔT 1.14
- Catalunya Escocia — ΔT 1.15
- Clan MacLeod Societies of Canada — ΔT 1.16
- Catalunya Escocia — ΔT 1.17
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 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.
ID: /setts/s10/y12k4r24g8r16k20w48b4w6b4-b5c8ca8-g003820-k101010-rc80000-wfcfcfc-yd8b000/