Bennet Dress (Fashion)

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 YBKBBBYBWBY.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3679

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • pre 2002 — Bennet Dress (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
  • undated — Bennet Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
    The Tartan Educational and Cultural Association (TECA) data suggests Wilsons white in place of the soft white almost grey ground shown here.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Tartans Authority
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
data date
pre 2002 (this record)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above)
  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

LR/128 DB36 LB4 DB6 LR4 DB6 T28 B16 K4 B8 LR/4

One full sett is 356 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
B#3070FC #3070FCoklch(58.8% 0.219 262.9)
T#00879F #00879Foklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LB#94ACFC #94ACFCoklch(75.8% 0.119 270.6)
LR#FF9C97 #FF9C97oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2)

Sample pattern

LR/128 DB36 LB4 DB6 LR4 DB6 T28 B16 K4 B8 LR/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.

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