Australian, 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 WRBKBRBRW.

Part of the Australian, dress tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from weddslist. It is a 9 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.weddslist.com/cgi-bin/tartans/pg.pl?source=sts

Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Weddslist
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/weddslist/data.csv
data date
2016-11-17 (dataset default)
licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Weddslist
    the living privately compiled reference
  2. 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
  3. this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
    each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources

Thread count

W/100 O8 B4 K4 B4 O8 B20 O30 LB/4

One full sett is 260 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)
B#466CC8 #466CC8oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0)

Sample pattern

W/100 O8 B4 K4 B4 O8 B20 O30 LB/4 tartan

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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.

Australian Dress District TartanRothesay, Duke ofSnowy Owl (Fashion)Strathyre dressSnowy OwlSeller, SillarAllandale Blue Dress TartanGlenmore PinkSaskatchewan Dress (Dance)Glenmore Green Fashion Tartangroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s9/w50o4b2k2b2o4b10o15lb2~x2/

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