Cameron Black & Red (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 KRKRKR.
Part of the Cameron Black & tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=491
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Cameron Black & Red (Dress) (register-of-tartans, record)
Lt. Col. I B Cameron Taylor writes, "It is possible that this sett was designed as a mourning tartan, as these were at one time popular, though usually in black and white." MacGregor-Hastie collection is found in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - pre 2002 — Cameron, Black & Red (Artefact) (tartans-authority, record)
Inverness Museum has a piece of this sett labelled as Cameron Dress. Lt. Col. I B Cameron Taylor suggested that this may be a mourning tartan. Usually they were in black and white but the sombreness of this, even in red and black, suggests this possible derivation. Woven sample from Sinclair/Brown Scrapbook.
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
- 2002 (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: 491
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1186
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1186
Thread count
K/4 R24 K4 R24 K66 R/4
One full sett is 244 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
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/k2r12k2r12k33r2~x2/