Glenfalloch
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 BRBWRWGWBGBW.
Part of the Glenfalloch tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1415
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Glenfalloch (register-of-tartans, record)
Glenfalloch' - Gaelic meaning "hidden valley" - was built as a private residence last century. Some years ago it was acquired by the Otago Peninsula Trust, to enable the people of Dunedin, New Zealand, and visitors to the area, to enjoy the beautiful gardens. Colours were chosen to represent as follows: Navy Blue - dark shadows in valley, Green/Blue - Overall colours of sea/sky/trees, Salmon Pink/White/Maroon - Wild flowers in season. - pre 2002 — Glenfalloch (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
'Glenfalloch' is said to be Gaelic for 'hidden valley' and was a private house built in the 1800s. It was acquired by the Otago Trust to enable the people of Dunedin and visitors to enjoy the gardens. Colours all choson to represent various aspects of the area and its flora.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Register of Tartans
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/register-of-tartans/data.csv
- data date
- 2002 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 1415
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2111
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2111
Thread count
DB/8 R2 DB24 W2 R8 W2 DG8 W2 DR8 DG24 DB2 W/4
One full sett is 176 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s12/db4r1db12w1r4w1dg4w1dr4dg12db1w2~x2/