Malcolm Dress (Lochcarron 2005)
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 KGKYKBKGKBRBRBKWBWBWBWBWKWBWBWBWBWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 35 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2796
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: 2796
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7036
Thread count
K/28 G36 K8 LY8 K8 DB8 K8 G36 K28 DB28 R8 DB12 R8 DB28 K28 W8 DB8 W44 DB8 W12 DB8 W44 DB8 W8 K28 W8 DB8 W44 DB8 W12 DB8 W44 DB8 W8 K/28
One full sett is 1208 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) |
| 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/s35/k7g9k2ly2k2db2k2g9k7db7r2db3r2db7k7w2db2w11db2w3db2w11db2w2k7w2db2w11db2w3db2w11db2w2k7~x4/