Gravesend Grammar School (Corp)

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 BGBBRBRBBGB.

Part of the Gravesend Grammar School tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 11 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/7100/ — retired · Internet Archive copy

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • May 2002 — Gravesend Grammar School (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed by Helen Marshall of Marton Mills for Gravesend Grammar School for Girls. The copyright was initially claimed by Banner Ltd (school uniform suppliers) but in error and it was reassigned in 2008 to Gravesend Grammar.
  • 01/02/2007 — Gravesend Grammar School for Girls (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed by Helen Marshall of Marton Mills for Banner Ltd of Reddish, Stockport for Gravesend Grammar School for Girls.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
source
Scottish Tartans Authority
data captured from
https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
data date
May 2002 (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

  1. Scottish Tartans Authority
    the heritage body’s archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references)
  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

Register references

External register numbers recorded for this tartan.

Thread count

DBi/8 G5 DBi72 DB72 O5 DB16 O5 DB72 DBi72 G5 DBi/8

One full sett is 664 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#2C2C80 #2C2C80oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6)
DB#1C1C50 #1C1C50oklch(26.2% 0.093 277.9)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
O#A65C11 #A65C11oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)

Sample pattern

DBi/8 G5 DBi72 DB72 O5 DB16 O5 DB72 DBi72 G5 DBi/8 tartan

Nearest tartan variants

The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance, with this cloth at the top so the swatches line up against it.

ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
664
sett
314
sett

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.

Hughes of Walesgroundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s11/dbi8g5dbi72db72o5db16o5db72dbi72g5dbi8~dbi3514276-db2609279/

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