Islander 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 KWRWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10248
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1st June 2010 This tartan was designed by Acacia Bingham based on the Manx Dress tartan to be used for her Highland dancing. Colours: turquoise is for the sea and sky around our island home; purple is for Mt Wellington which stands above our city; black is for the strength and white is for the grace needed for highland dancing. This tartan is only to be worn by permission of the designer. It is intended for those people who live on islands separate from the mainland of a country. (House of Tartan, Scotland)
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/06/2010 — Islander Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan was designed by Acacia Bingham to be used for her Highland dancing. Colours: turquoise is for the sea and sky around our island home; purple is for Mt Wellington which stands above our city; black is for the strength and white is for the grace needed for highland dancing. - 1st June 2010 — Islander Dress (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
This tartan was designed by Acacia Bingham to be used for her Highland dancing. Colours: turquoise is for the sea and sky around our island home; purple is for Mt Wellington which stands above our city; black is for the strength and white is for the grace needed for highland dancing. This tartan is only to be worn by permission of the designer. It is intended for those people who live on islands separate from the mainland of a country. - undated — Islander Dress Fancy Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 01/06/2010 (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: 10248
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10248
Thread count
K/6 W58 O18 LB38 K/6
One full sett is 240 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
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/k3w29o9lb19k3~x2/