Black Watch Dress (Symmetrical)
Bands: BKBKGKGKWBWBW · Stripes: DB K DB K G K G K W DB W DB W DB K DB K G K G K W DB W DB W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4935
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4935
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3094
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DB/4 K4 DB12 K12 G16 K4 G16 K12 W4 DB4 W24 DB4 W/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #202060 #202060 | B #2A418A | 0.11 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| K | #000000 #000000 | K #000000 | 0.00 |
| W | #FFFFFF #FFFFFF | W #F7F7F7 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Sutherland, dress — ΔT 0.73
- Black Watch Dress (Fashion) — ΔT 0.74
- Gordon Dress (1965) — ΔT 1.11
- Gordon, dress 4 — ΔT 1.11
- Gordon Dress #2 — ΔT 1.13
- Scottish National Dress — ΔT 1.13
- Gordon Dress Tartan Tartan Number: 294. Earliest known date: pre 2003 No source given See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.15
- Gordon Dress — ΔT 1.16
- Poulter Hoylake — ΔT 1.23
- MacKenzie Dress - 1950 (Clan) — ΔT 1.23
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.
ID: /setts/s13/db1k1db3k3g4k1g4k3w1db1w6db1w1~x4/