Iowa 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 GWKGBKWKBGKWGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1851
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/2004 — Iowa Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
Iowa has a rich history of Scottish influence in the founding of towns, cities,and counties; and that history is reflected in place names and celebrations throughout Iowa. Iowans of Scottish & Scots-Irish descent have shown leadership in the fields of science, industry, literature, politics, exploration, & conservation. The Iowa Scottish Heritage Society desired to give to the people of Iowa a tartan that symbolizes the state. Blue for the sky, rivers & lakes. Green for the fields our farmers plant. Black for the rich soil for which we are blessed. White for the snow we get. Red for the barns and the state flower the wild rose. Brown(Tan) for the earth. Yellow for corn and the state bird the Goldfinch. Adopted by the State of Iowa General Assembly, House resolution No 149 by Heaton & Whitaker (undated). Sample. - Sept 2004 — Iowa Dress (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Iowa has a rich history of Scottish influence in the founding of towns, cities,and counties; and that history is reflected in place names and celebrations throughout Iowa. Iowans of Scottish & Scots-Irish descent have shown leadership in the fields of science, industry, literature, politics, exploration, & conservation. The Iowa Scottish Heritage Society desired to give to the people of Iowa a tartan that symbolizes the state. Blue for the sky, rivers & lakes, Green for the fields our farmers plant. Black for the rich soil for which we are blessed. White for the snow we get. Red for the barns and the state flower the wild rose. Brown(Tan) for the earth. Yellow for corn and the state bird the Goldfinch. Adopted by the State of Iowa General Assembly, House resolution No 149 by Heaton & Whitaker (undated). Sample.
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
- 01/09/2004 (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: 1851
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6382
Thread count
R/8 Y6 W24 K32 G10 DB40 K8 W4 K8 DB40 G10 K32 W24 Y/6
One full sett is 490 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| 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/s8/r4y3w12k16g5db20k4w2~x2/