Dunlop Dress
Bands: WBWBBWBW · Stripes: W DB W DB DP W DP W W DB W DB DP W DP W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1046
Attestations
This cloth appears in 3 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1982 — Dunlop Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1982 — Dunlop Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
- undated — Dunlop Dress Family Tartan Tartan Number: 1784. Earliest known date: 1984 Revised version 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: 1046
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1784
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1784
Thread count
W/6 DB2 W60 DB2 P56 W2 P2 W/6

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 |
| P | #6C0070 #6C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.16 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Dunlop, dress — ΔT 0.49
- Cunningham Dress Purple (Dance) Fashion Tartan Tartan Number: 6531. Earliest known date: 01/01/1986 A dancers' tartan from D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.49
- Cunningham Dress Purple (Dance) — ΔT 1.53
- Grotto Dove (Dance) — ΔT 1.70
- Rothesay, Dress (VS) — ΔT 1.77
- Menzies Dress, Cerise (Dance) — ΔT 1.80
- Longniddry Dress (Dance) — ΔT 1.85
- Buckleigh Dress (Fashion) — ΔT 1.87
- Longniddry Dress District Tartan Tartan Number: 88. Earliest known date: pre 2003 A dancers tartan from D.C. Dalgleish weavers of Selkirk See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.92
- Irn Bru — ΔT 1.92
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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