Galloway Red
Bands: GRBRBW · Stripes: G R DB R DB W G R DB R DB W
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1306
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1950 — Galloway Red (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1950 — Galloway, Red (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 1306
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 843
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 843
Variants
Other setts woven to the same stripe pattern.
Thread count
G/6 R4 DB44 R44 DB4 W/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 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006100 | 0.02 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #CC0000 | 0.01 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Sample pattern

Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Galloway Dress (Yellow Line) — ΔT 0.71
- Suntan (Masai Shuka) (District?) — ΔT 0.90
- Masai Shuka 17 (Artefact) — ΔT 0.91
- Fazzolettone (Fashion?) — ΔT 0.97
- Robinson, dress — ΔT 0.99
- Superfast Ferries (Corporate) — ΔT 0.99
- Galloway dress — ΔT 1.03
- Robinson Dress (Pendleton) #1 — ΔT 1.05
- Americana - 1978 #2 (Fashion) — ΔT 1.08
- Mercer Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 3019. Earliest known date: 2004 Sent to House of Tartan by the owner. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.16
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/s6/g3r2db22r22db2w3~x2/