Glenalmond College
Bands: BKBKBKGRGKBR · Stripes: DB K DB K DB K DG R DG K DB R DB K DB K DB K DG R DG K DB R
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1404
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1936 — Glenalmond College (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1936 — Glenalmond College (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1404
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6123
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
DB/24 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K24 N24 R6 N24 K24 DB24 R/6

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| N | #306048 #306048 | G #006100 | 0.09 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Poulter, Jet Black (Corporate) — ΔT 0.64
- Murray #2 — ΔT 0.67
- New South Wales Scottish Rifles — ΔT 0.67
- Cheape of Torosay (Clan) — ΔT 0.76
- Gordon — ΔT 0.77
- Fletcher — ΔT 0.82
- Wilson's No.231 — ΔT 0.88
- Cheape of Torosay #2 (Personal) — ΔT 0.89
- MacKinlay — ΔT 0.93
- Cheape of Torosay — ΔT 0.95
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s12/db12k2db2k2db2k12dg12r3dg12k12db12r3~x2/