Elbrick Dress (Personal)
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 RBRGGRBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1095
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/12/2001 — Elbrick Dress (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
A private or house tartan. Closely related to Fraser of Lovat and Aird Clan Tartan (Old and Rare No. 9), honouring the family's distaff descent from Sir Simon Fraser, brother to Sir Alexander Fraser (Chamberlain to Robert the Bruce) and the Honorary Captaincy of Beaufort Castle held by the family (Galpin Forbes Fraser). Incorporates the house colours of blue and gold. This is a restricted tartan, with Kinloch Anderson Ltd appointed as custodians. - pre 2004 — Elbrick Dress (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh for the Elbrick family. The colours incorporate those from the family's armorial bearings - blue and gold. This is a restricted tartan, with Kinloch Anderson Limited appointed as custodians.
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
- 01/12/2001 (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: 1095
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6190
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2971
Thread count
R/12 T44 R12 G40 Y4 R90 T4 W/10
One full sett is 410 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/r6t22r6g20y2r45t2w5~x2/