Dyce
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 BKBKBKGGKGGKBW.
Part of the Dyce tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1057
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1906 — Dyce (register-of-tartans, record)
From W & A.K. Johnston 1906. A Dyce appears in J Claude's 1880 pattern books 'Clans Originaux' (ITI 3491) which shows single black lines on the blue rather than the tramlines shown here. This is the modern accepted version as woven by The House of Edgar. - 1906 — Dyce (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
From W & A.K. Johnston 1906. A Dyce appears in J Claude's 1880 pattern books 'Clans Originaux' (ITI 3491) which shows single black lines on the blue rather than the tramlines shown here. This is the modern accepted version as woven by The House of Edgar.
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
- 1906 (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: 1057
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 291
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 291
Thread count
T/36 K4 T4 K4 T4 K32 G32 Y4 K4 Y4 G32 K32 T32 W/4
One full sett is 416 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| 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) |
| 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/s14/t9k1t1k1t1k8g8y1k1y1g8k8t8w1~x4/