Shaw Dress (Personal)
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 BWGWBWRWRWRWRWRWRWW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 19 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3776
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — Shaw Dress (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by James Scarlett MBE for Miss Rebecca Shaw, the Chief's daughter. This is an arisaidh setting of the Red Shaw of Tordarroch tartan, intended to be woven as a shawl, probably about 108 inches long by 27 inches wide. - pre 2004 — Shaw Dress (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
This threadcount from JDS Sept 200. Designed by J D Scarlett on the occasion of the birthday of the Chief's daughter, Miss Rebecca Shaw. This is an arisaidh setting of the Red Shaw of Tordarroch. It would appear that the sett was originally intended for a shawl. Jamie Scarlett frequently handwove shawls/stoles about 108 inches long by 27 inches wide.
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
- 2004 (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: 3776
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6381
Thread count
LB/6 W12 R2 W4 R2 W4 R2 W4 R2 W4 R2 W4 R2 W64 DP8 W20 G16 W28 DP/6
One full sett is 372 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) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s19/dp3w14g8w10dp4w32r1w2r1w2r1w2r1w2r1w2r1w6lb3~x2/