Skye Dress Blue, Earl of (Dance)

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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 BBBBBWBBWBBBWBWB.

Part of the Skye Dress Blue, Earl of tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3812

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)

01/01/2002 — Skye Dress Blue, Earl of (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
Confusion between Earl of Skye and Isle of Skye.
pre 2002 — Skye Dress, Blue, Earl of (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
Confusion between Earl of Skye and Isle of Skye.

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: 2002 (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: 3812
Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5331

Thread count

DR/8 W10 DB4 W44 DR28 DB8 T4 W8 T4 DB6 W6 DB8 T4 N8 T4 DB/8

One full sett is 308 threads.

The source recorded this cloth as DB/8 T4 N8 T4 DB8 W6 DB6 T4 W8 T4 DB8 DR28 W44 DB4 W10 DR8 W10 DB4 W44 DR28 DB8 T4 W8 T4 DB6 W6 DB8 T4 N8 T/4 — 604 threads; it folds to the canonical 308-thread sett above.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
T	`#00879F` #00879F	oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
DB	`#082077` #082077	oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DR	`#55120C` #55120C	oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
W	`#F7F7F7` #F7F7F7	oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
N	`#636363` #636363	oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)
LB	`#B5BBDE` #B5BBDE	oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)

Sample pattern

DR/8 W10 DB4 W44 DR28 DB8 T4 W8 T4 DB6 W6 DB8 T4 N8 T4 DB/8 tartan

ID: /variants/s16/dr4w5db2w22dr14db4t2w4t2db3w3db4t2n4t2db4~x2/