Campbell Dress Artifact Tartan

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 BKBKGKGKWBWKW.

Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 13 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=20

Provenance

Earliest known date: 1880 A sample is displayed at the Black Watch museum. However, it was never worn as a regimental tartan.

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 1880 — Campbell Dress Artifact Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
  • undated — Campbell, 42nd dress (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
House of Tartan
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
data date
1880 (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. House of Tartan
    the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity
  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

Thread count

W/6 K4 W30 DB6 W6 K14 G16 K4 G16 K14 DB16 K2 DB/4

One full sett is 266 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

W/6 K4 W30 DB6 W6 K14 G16 K4 G16 K14 DB16 K2 DB/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.

Campbell, 42nd Dress (Balhousie)Sutherland Dress (Fashion)Forbes DressBlack Watch Dress (Fashion)Forbes DressCampbell, Forty SecondDinarzh: Fortress of the BearMurray of Atholl DressDinarzh: (Fashion)Campbell, The 42nd Dressgroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s13/w3k2w15db3w3k7g8k2g8k7db8k1db2~x2/

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