Dundee Wallace

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 RRRKRWWBWBWWKGWKWGGWR.

Part of the Dundee Wallace tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 21 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1039

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/1819 — Dundee Wallace (register-of-tartans, record)
    From Wilsons 1819 KPB, Page 12. A complicated sett using 9 colours - desirable maximum is normally 6. No further details.
  • 1819 — Dundee Wallace (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
    From Wilsons 1819 Key Pattern Book, Page 12. A complicated sett using 9 colours - desirable maximum is normally 6. No further details.
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
1819 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  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

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Thread count

Ri/104 W4 G86 Y8 W4 K4 W4 Y8 K36 LB16 W4 DP16 W16 DP16 W4 LB16 Ri20 K6 R4 Rii4 Ri/8

One full sett is 664 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
R#E87878 #E87878oklch(70.0% 0.139 21.2)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
R#A00048 #A00048oklch(45.4% 0.182 5.3)
R#C80000 #C80000oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

Ri/104 W4 G86 Y8 W4 K4 W4 Y8 K36 LB16 W4 DP16 W16 DP16 W4 LB16 Ri20 K6 R4 Rii4 Ri/8 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.

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