Dress Blue
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 BWKBBWG.
Part of the Dress tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10689
Provenance
Earliest known date: 5 September 2012 This tartan is intended as an unofficial complementary alternative to the existing tartans worn by US Marines. The design should be recognisable to anyone who is familiar with the Dress Blue uniform. It may be worn by anyone who has served in the US Marine Corps, who has a family member who is, or was, a Marine, or who wishes to honour those who are, or have served as, Marines. The colours are presented in the tartan in the same ratios as they would appear in the uniform. The dark blue is from the uniform blouse, the light blue is from the trousers, the red is from the piping on the blouse and the 'blood stripe' down the trouser legs, the white is from the cover, waistbelt and gloves, the gold is from the brass buttons, waistplate and EGA, and the black is from the cover bill and the shoes.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 09/06/2012 — Dress Blue (register-of-tartans, record)
This tartan is intended as an unofficial complementary alternative to the existing tartans worn by US Marines. The design should be recognisable to anyone who is familiar with the Dress Blue uniform. It may be worn by anyone who has served in the US Marine Corps, who has a family member who is, or was, a Marine, or who wishes to honour those who are, or have served as, Marines. The colours are presented in the tartan in the same ratios as they would appear in the uniform. The dark blue is from the uniform blouse, the light blue is from the trousers, the red is from the piping on the blouse and the 'blood stripe' down the trouser legs, the white is from the cover, waistbelt and gloves, the gold is from the brass buttons, waistplate and EGA, and the black is from the cover bill and the shoes. - 5 September 2012 — Dress Blue Fashion 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
- 09/06/2012 (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: 10689
Thread count
DR/8 LB32 K6 DB88 DR2 W6 Y/4
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| 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/s7/dr4lb16k3db44dr1w3y2~x2/