Shiel, Purple V2 (Dance)
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 WGBWWGW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7584
Provenance
Earliest known date: March 2008 One of a series of dancer's tartans for the House of Edgar's in-house collection designed by Kirsty Anderson.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- March 2008 — Shiel, Purple V2 (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
One of a series of dancer's tartans for the House of Edgar's in-house collection designed by Kirsty Anderson. - March 2008 — Shiel Lavender Fashion Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Shiel Purple V2 (register-of-tartans, record)
One of a series of dancer's tartans for the House of Edgar's in-house collection designed by Kirsty Anderson.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- March 2008 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5608
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7584
Thread count
W/16 G10 DP20 LB48 W60 G4 LP/4
One full sett is 304 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LP | #E4A6DB #E4A6DB | oklch(80.0% 0.100 331.6) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/w8g5dp10lb24w30g2lp2~x2/