Mar 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 BRGRBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2828
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1750 — Mar Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Threadcount recorded by the Countess of Mar, Chief of the Name of Mar, in the Lyon Court Books (writs section), 83, 22 June 1992. An 18th century sett from Glen Buchet adopted by the Countess of Mar as the Mar Dress or Red Mar tartan. To be used by those of the name and those given permission by the Countess. A specimen of hard tartan, 28 inches x 48 inches, was presented to the Scottish Tartans Society by Mr A Brebber, Aberdeenshire, and is now part of the Scottish Tartans Society collection. - 1750 — Mar, Red (tartans-authority, record)
An old 18th century sett from Glen Buchet adopted by the Countess of Mar as the 'red Mar' tartan. To be used as such by those of the name and those given permission by her. This is not a District sett. Lord Lyon count (LCB 83 22.6.1992) B4 R50 G50 R2 B50 R4STS notes say "a specimen of hard tartan, 28 inches x 48 inches, presented to the Scottish Tartans Society by Mr A. Brebber, Aberdeenshire, and now part of the STS collection." Unnamed fragment from C.1750 from Glen Buchet adopted as a red Mar tartan by the Countess of Mar C.1990. Recorded in Lyon Court Book - LCB 83 on 22nd June 1992.
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
- 1750 (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: 2828
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 529
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 529
Thread count
DB/4 R48 G48 R2 DB48 R/4
One full sett is 300 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) |
| 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/s6/db2r24g24r1db24r2~x2/