Douglas Ancient Dress (WCWM)
Bands: RKRKRKRKRRKYKRKWKWR · Stripes: R K O K O K O K O R K LY K O K W K W O R K O K O K O K O R K LY K O K W K W O
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 19 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=959
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- undated — Douglas Ancient Dress (WCWM) (register-of-tartans, record)
- undated — Douglas Grey Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1310. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Nothing 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: 959
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1310
Thread count
N/4 LN8 K4 LN22 K16 N6 K4 Y6 K4 R6 N10 K2 N10 K4 N2 K12 N2 K12 R/12

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| N | #888888 #888888 | R #CC0000 | 0.24 |
| R | #DC0000 #DC0000 | R #CC0000 | 0.03 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Douglas, Ancient dress — ΔT 0.76
- Alaskan Scottish — ΔT 0.89
- Unidentified #11 — ΔT 1.08
- Alexander Brothers - 1993 (Corp.) — ΔT 1.08
- Southwick (Name) — ΔT 1.09
- Alaskan Scottish — ΔT 1.13
- Pride of Loch Leven (Fashion?) — ΔT 1.19
- Forbes - 1970 (WCWM #1) — ΔT 1.22
- Maple Leaf Dress — ΔT 1.22
- Gullane — ΔT 1.24
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/s19/r6k6o1k6o1k2o5k1o5r3k2ly3k2o3k8w11k2w4o2~x2/