Black Watch Dress Tartan Tartan Number: 1965. Earliest known date: 1930 MacGregor-Hastie Collection. Unlikely though it sounds Dress Black Watch tartan is intended for highland dancing. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015
In pattern BKBKBKGKGKWBWBWBWBWKBKBKB.
This was sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 25 stripes tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1965
Thread count
DB/20 K4 DB4 K4 DB20 K18 G22 K6 G22 K20 LN6 DB8 LN30 DB4 LN8 DB4 LN30 DB8 LN6 K20 DB20 K4 DB4 K4 DB/20
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 #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F4F4F0 | 0.06 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Black Watch Dress (Asymmetrical) — ΔT 0.33
- Black Watch, dress — ΔT 0.48
- Sutherland Dress (Fashion) — ΔT 1.05
- MacKinlay Dress — ΔT 1.15
- MacKenzie Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1981. Earliest known date: pre 2003 This sample comes from the MacGregor-Hastie collection which forms the basis of the cloth archive of the Scottish Tartans Society. Some of the samples, including this one, were unmarked. One can assume that the sample dates between 1930 and 1950. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.17
- MacKenzie Dress #4 — ΔT 1.17
- Argyle Dress — ΔT 1.19
- Scottish National Dress District Tartan Tartan Number: 2160. Earliest known date: 1994 In 1934 The National Association of Scottish Woollen Manufacturers designed a tartan they named 'National'. In 1994 Highland clothiers, McCalls of Aberdeen, designed and registered a tartan they called the 'National Dress' which appears to have retained some elements of the original design. The 'Dress' tartan was registered as a patented design, No. 601292, on 22nd March 1994. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.19
- Campbell of Loch Neil Dress Clan Tartan Tartan Number: 1963. Earliest known date: pre 2003 Sample 1984 See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.25
- MacKenzie, dress — ΔT 1.31
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.
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