Dorcas (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 BGBGBGBRWRWR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3180
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1990 — Dorcas (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Fraser & Kirkbright say (Sept 2002) it was made for Aljean. See #1315 for original Scotch House 'Dorcas' Sindex notes differ: "Scotch House fashion check. c.1980." Weft slog OGT:TWT Warp slog ONK:TWT Aljean - women's clothes retailer in Vancouver Canada traded under Aljean name from 1950-2012. - undated — Dorcas (WCWM) (register-of-tartans, record)
Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Fraser & Kirkbright say (September 2002) it was made for Aljean. See #1315 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) for original Scotch House 'Dorcas' Sindex notes differ: 'Scotch House fashion check. c.1980.' Weft slog OGT:TWT Warp slog ONK:TWT
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
- 1990 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 - 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.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 4884
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3180
Thread count
DR/8 G40 DB4 G4 DB4 G6 DB12 O52 W6 O4 W4 O/8
One full sett is 288 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
Sample pattern
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.
ID: /variants/s12/dr4g20db2g2db2g3db6o26w3o2w2o4~x2/