Galloway Dress (Yellow Line)
Bands: GRBRBY · Stripes: DG R DB R DB LY DG R DB R DB LY
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1303
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1950 — Galloway Dress (Yellow Line) (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1950 — Galloway Dress (Yellow Line) (Dist) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1303
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 850
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 850
Thread count
G/4 R2 DB32 R32 DB2 Y/4

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 | #285800 #285800 | G #006100 | 0.03 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #F2BF00 | 0.02 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Galloway dress — ΔT 0.53
- Robinson, dress — ΔT 0.63
- Galloway Red — ΔT 0.71
- Robinson Dress (Pendleton) #1 — ΔT 0.73
- Galloway, dress — ΔT 0.76
- Americana - 1978 #2 (Fashion) — ΔT 0.94
- Superfast Ferries (Corporate) — ΔT 0.95
- Mercer Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 3019. Earliest known date: 2004 Sent to House of Tartan by the owner. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.97
- Masai Shuka 17 (Artefact) — ΔT 0.98
- Mercer, James (Personal) — ΔT 1.03
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.
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