Dunbar Ancient
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 KWKRKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1016
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1840 Restricted
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1840 — Dunbar Ancient (register-of-tartans, record)
This is a Wilsons pattern. From Pattern Book No..? Scottish Tartans Society notes: first reported by MacGregor Hastie in 1934. The sample was found to match a similarly styled piece in the Wilson's samples housed in the collection at the Smith Institute in Stirling. The conclusion drawn was that a 'Dunbar District' tartan had been in existence since around 1840, providing an alternative to the Vestiarium sett (#1472, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) published in 1842. Woven by House of Edgar. - 1840 — Dunbar (District) (tartans-authority, record)
This is a Wilsons pattern. from Pattern Book No..? Scottish Tartans Society notes: first reported by MacGregor Hastie in 1934. The sample was found to match a similarly styled piece in the Wilson's samples housed in the collection at the Smith Institute in Stirling. The conclusion drawn was that a 'Dunbar District' tartan had been in existance since around 1840, providing an alternative to the Vestiarium sett (#1472) published in 1842. Woven by House of Edgar. - 1840 — Dunbar (Wilson's) District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Dunbar (weddslist, record)
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
- 1840 (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: 1016
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1236
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1236
Thread count
K/26 W4 K8 R56 K8 W/4
One full sett is 182 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
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/r28k4w2k13~x2/