Malcolm Dress
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 KGKYKGKGKBRBRBKWKWKWKWKW.
Part of the Malcolm Dress tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 24 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2795
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1888 — Malcolm Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
This version of the Dress Malcolm tartan comes from the samples collected by J. Cant between 1930-50. It is based on the asymmetrical sett recorded by the Smith brothers in 1850. According to D.C. Stewart's Nomindex this would appear to be the dress sett described in 1888 in the Neilson, Shaw & MacGregor catalogue. From Scotch House, London. Woven by Peter MacArthur of Hamilton. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. - pre 1888 — Malcolm Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. This asymmetric version of the Dress Malcolm tartan comes from the samples collected by J. Cant between 1930-50. It is based on the sett recorded by the Smith brothers in 1850. According to D C Stewart's Nomindex this would appear to be the dress sett described in 1888 in the Neilson, Shaw & MacGregor catalogue from Scotch House, London. Woven by Peter MacArthur of Hamilton. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. Neilson, Shaw & MacGregor were early 19th century silk merchants in Buchanan Street, Glasgow.
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
- 1888 (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: 2795
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1977
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1977
Thread count
K/28 G36 K8 LY8 K8 Y8 K8 G36 K28 DB28 R8 DB12 R8 DB28 K28 W8 K8 W44 K8 W12 K8 W44 K8 W/8
One full sett is 820 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/s24/k7g9k2ly2k2y2k2g9k7db7r2db3r2db7k7w2k2w11k2w3k2w11k2w2~x4/