Culloden Blue Dress Fancy Tartan
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 GBWWBWBW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1792
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1980 One of a number of dress tartans produced by Hugh Macpherson, a kiltmaker in Edinburgh, intended for dancing and other informal occassions. The 'dress' version of clan tartan is usually created by substituting white for one of the 'ground' colours.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1980 — Culloden Blue Dress Fancy Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1997 — Culloden, Blue Dress (Dance) (register-of-tartans, record)
Hugh Macpherson was a kiltmaker in Edinburgh and designed a number of dress tartans for use by dancers. The conventional method of producing a 'dress' version of a tartan is to replace one of the ground colours with white or light grey. See also his Red Dress #742 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection - 1997 — Culloden Dress, Blue (Dance) (tartans-authority, record)
Hugh Macpherson was a kiltmaker in Edinburgh and designed a number of dress tartans for use by dancers. The conventional method of producing a 'dress' version of a tartan is to replace one of the ground colours with white or light grey. See also his Red Dress # 742 Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. This appears to be a duplicate of 4624. - undated — Culloden, Blue dress (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1980 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 831
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1792
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1792
Thread count
Y/16 DB8 LB46 W6 DB44 W50 DB6 W/12
One full sett is 348 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/y8db4lb23w3db22w25db3w6~x2/