Stewart Dress (Clan)
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 tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1765
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- circa 1750 — Stewart Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
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. (STS notes). - undated — Stuart/Stewart Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — Stewart dress (weddslist, record)
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
- circa 1750 (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: 3999
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1765
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1765
Thread count
W/78 DB6 K12 Y6 K6 W6 K6 G16 R10 K6 R6 W/6
One full sett is 244 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
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.24 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/w39db3k6y3k3w3k3g8r5k3r3w3~x2/