Culloden 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 RWBGKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=822
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1960 — Culloden Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
A confusing profusion of Culloden tartans exist with various claims as to the source. This fairly standard sett is said (by Gordon Teall in District Tartans) to have been worn by a member of Prince Charle's staff during the battle and to have first been documented by D.W. Stewart in 1893. Despite that, the same design has been attributed to Geoffrey Laird-Portch (Laird-Portch of Scotland) and claimed by Thomas Stewart Gordon of Messrs Thomas Gordon, Glasgow, who claimed to have designed both Culloden Dress (1323) and Blue Culloden in 1960. - undated — Culloden, Dress (weddslist, 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
- 1960 (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: 822
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1323
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1323
Thread count
R/12 LB6 DP48 Y4 K46 W46 K4 W/12
One full sett is 332 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/r6lb3dp24y2k23w23k2w6~x2/