Stuart/Stewart Dress Royal
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 WBKGKWKGRKRW.
Part of the Stewart Dress tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4002
Provenance
Earliest known date: 19th century The 'Dress' version of James Logan's 'Royal Stewart' which D.C.Stewart compared to 200 year old silk scarf with the remark, "that the design had been well maintained". In this pattern the blue is joined to the black and the yellow and white are of equal size. The red stripe on the white, not present here, signifies a 'Victoria' sett. The Dress Stewart tartan alongside its 'formal' partner, the Royal Stewart, is known throughout the world as a symbol of Scotland.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- undated — Stuart/Stewart Dress Royal (register-of-tartans, record)
The 'Dress' version of James Logan's 'Royal Stewart' which D.C. Stewart compared to a 200 year old silk scarf with the remark, "that the design had been well maintained". In this pattern the blue is joined to the black and the yellow and white are of equal size. The red stripe on the white, not present here, signifies a 'Victoria' sett. The Dress Stewart tartan alongside its 'formal' partner, the Royal Stewart, is known throughout the world as a symbol of Scotland. - undated — Stewart dress (weddslist, record)
- undated — Stewart Dress Clan Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 2017-01-06 (dataset default)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 4002
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1790
Thread count
W/62 DB8 K12 Y4 K4 W4 K4 G14 R8 K4 R4 W/4
One full sett is 198 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/w31db4k6y2k2w2k2g7r4k2r2w2~x2/