Oliver Dress Pink
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 KWGWR.
Part of the Cornish National Day 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=4807
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1984 Sample presented by D.G.Teall. Proportionally similar to the usual Cornish National.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1973 — Oliver Dress Pink (register-of-tartans, record)
The basic design is obviously John Cargill's of 1973 but not known where the pink came from. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority Dalgety Collection. The original graphic here had a pink line missing between the blue and the green but with a woven sample to hand, this has been reintroduced. In Dancers' swatch book from D C Dalgliesh so it may be that this is a spurious dance tartan rather than a clan dress tartan. - 01/01/1980 — Cornish National Day (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Donald Rawe of Probus, Cornwall. No dates and no further details. Aug 2004 - Peter R Morton-Nance son of the designer of the Cornish national Tartan (#1567, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) said that his father was in partnership with Don Rawe. The rights of this tartan were in April 2006 taken over by Peter Morton-Nance of Gwethnoc Tartan Company of St. Austell, whwn Don Rawe handed over the rights to all his tartans to Peter R Morton-Nance. - 1984 — Cornish National Day District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- circa 1980s — Cornish National Day (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Donald Rawe of Probus, Cornwall. No dates and no further details. Aug 2004 - Peter R Morton-Nance son of the designer of the Cornish national Tartan (#1567) said that his father was in partnership with Don Rawe. The rights of this tartan have now (April 2006) been taken over by Peter Morton-Nance of Gwethnoc Tartan Company of St. Austell Tel: 01726 72777,
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
- 1973 (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: 4807
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1262
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1259
Thread count
K/10 W4 Y72 LB94 R/6
One full sett is 356 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/k5w2y36lb47r3~x2/