Turnbull 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 KBGRY.
Part of the Turnbull Dress tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4161
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1980 — Turnbull Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Johnston Collection. Woven by Lochcarron. Unusual in that as a dress tartan it has no white. Bob Martin mentioned - not known whether info source or designer. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection has the green so dark as to appear black. This has the same geometry as a Douglas tartan and in "Tartans" William H.Johnston & Philip D.Smith jr is named as Douglas of Roxburgh. - pre 1980 — Turnbull Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Bob Martin is mentioned in the original notes - not known whether info source or designer. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection has the green so dark as to appear black. This is now accepted by the Turnbull Clan Association as their dress tartan. They appear to have two tartans - dress and hunting
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
- 1980 (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: 4161
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1035
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1035
Thread count
K/12 DB6 G60 R60 LY/6
One full sett is 270 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) |
| 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/s5/k2db1g10r10ly1~x6/