Little Dress

This is one variant — a specific cloth: this exact thread count and colourway, with its own provenance below. It is one weaving of the sett (the scale-free proportion — the same cloth at any scale or shade), whose colour order is pattern KBKBKWKWKY.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 10 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2126

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/2000 — Little Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed in 2000 by Sandy Frediani, CA, USA. This is a colour change on the 1991 Little tartan with the R and W reversed. See also Little Arisaid.
  • 2000 — Little Dress (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed in 2000 by Sandy Frediani, CA, USA. This is a colour change on the 1991 Little tartan with the R and W reversed. See also Little Arisaid. Assumed to be 'Name'
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Register of Tartans
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
data date
2000 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. thetartan/tartan-database 2016-2017 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
    Levko Kravets's frozen compilation — the capture we vendored, and where its CC licence text came from
  3. this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
    each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Thread count

K/16 DR16 K16 DR16 K16 W32 K8 W32 K32 LO/4

One full sett is 356 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)

Sample pattern

K/16 DR16 K16 DR16 K16 W32 K8 W32 K32 LO/4 tartan

Nearest tartan variants

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.

Neighbour map

Every grey dot is one of 13621 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (42% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.

Little of Morton RiggLittle, ArisaidCavan County Crest (Fashion)Little of Morton Rig Family/Clan TartanBrittany National (District)Scotsburn CroftScott, Sir WalterUnnamed (Hip Flask)Wilson's No.175Dalgliesh Dressgroundcomplexity

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