Barclay 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 GBGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 4 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=214
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1842 — Barclay Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
This sett is based on the earlier hunting sett which appeared in the Vestiarium Scoticum in 1842. This dress version is the sett most commonly associated with the name. Threadcount taken from W & A K Johnston 'The Tartans of the Clans and Septs of Scotland'. - 1842 — Barclay Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
There are two versions of Barclay family tartan - this one which has a yellow ground and the hunting version which has a green ground. The latter comes from Vestiarium Scoticum. The scale of this yellow Barclay was W/2 Y12 K12 Y/2 but the count for this graphic is taken from the Lochcarron woven sample.
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
- 1842 (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: 214
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1879
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1879
Thread count
DY/10 DT64 DY64 W/10
One full sett is 276 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s4/dy5dt32dy32w5~x2/