Victoria (Wilsons)
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 RWWKGKWKGRKRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4453
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1838 — Victoria (Wilsons) (register-of-tartans, record)
Similar to the Dress Stewart but with a red line running through the white ground. It is known to have been in production as early as 1838 (NOMINDEX). Scottish Tartans Society notes say Royal Family but it was certainly used as a fashion tartan in 1906 where it was the lining for an Inverness cape from John Wight & Co of 105 Princes Street Edinburgh. - 1838 — Victoria (Royal) (tartans-authority, record)
Similar to the Dress Stewart but with a red line running through the white ground. It is known to have been in production as early as 1838 (NOMINDEX). Scottish Tartans Society notes say Royal Family but it was certainly used as a fashion tartan in 1906 where it was the lining for an Inverness cape from John Wight & C. of 105 Princes St., Edinburgh. Another note - possibly from Harry Lindley of Kinloch Anderson states: "It is said she (Queen Victoria) admired the Dress Stewart tartan so much, but requested a variation, so the Red Line was introduced - date mid 1800s." 11th March 2015. Burberry Catalogue produced during WWI by John Ross lists the Queen Victoria as a Royal Tartan. - undated — Victoria (weddslist, 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
- 1838 (this record)
- 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: 4453
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1675
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1675
Thread count
R/8 W32 LB10 K10 Y4 K4 W4 K4 G10 R10 K4 R4 W/4
One full sett is 204 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s13/r4w16lb5k5y2k2w2k2g5r5k2r2w2~x2/