Princess Beatrice Dress (1880)
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 GGKGKGKRKRKRWBWRKRK.
Part of the Princess Beatrice Dress tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 19 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3397
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1880 — Princess Beatrice Dress (1880) (register-of-tartans, record)
Princess Beatrice (1857 - 1944) was the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria who married Prince Henry of Battenburg in 1885. It was originally thought that this tartan was possibly designed for that wedding or as a commemorative tartan for that occasion although it was not until circa 1930 that the sett first appeared in the lists of Ross and Johnston. However, research in 2003 showed that a woven sample of this tartan, just known as 'Beatrice Dress' was included in Clans Originaux published in Paris in 1880. The original hypothesis was therefore incorrect and the tartan had been in existance for at least 5 years before the wedding. - 1880 — Princess Beatrice Dress (1880) (Fash (tartans-authority, record)
Princess Beatrice (1857 - 1944) was the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria who married Prince Henry of Battenburg in 1885. It was originally thought that this tartan was possibly designed for that wedding or as a commemorative tartan for that occasion although it was not until circa 1930 that the sett first appeared in the lists of Ross and Johnston. However, research in 2003 showed that a woven sample of this tartan, just known as 'Beatrice Dress' was included in Clans Originaux published in Paris in 1880. The original hypothesis was therefore incorrect and the tartan had been in existance for at least 5 years before the wedding.
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
- 1880 (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: 3397
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1206
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1206
Thread count
K/6 R2 K4 R4 W40 DB6 W6 R16 K4 R4 K4 R4 K16 G4 K4 G4 K4 G16 DY/4
One full sett is 294 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 1.14 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/k3r1k2r2w20db3w3r8k2r2k2r2k8g2k2g2k2g8dy2~x2/