Glen Clova #2 (Fashion)
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 BGBYBWBGBBBY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1748
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1986 — Glen Clova #2 (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
No further details. This could be the NNN:TNN (Warp) and TTT:TTT (Weft) referred to in Sindex notes where specimen was presented by Gordon Teall in 1986. Glen Clova is a particularly scenic glen in Angus. - 01/01/2002 — Glen Clova #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
No further details. This could be the NNN:TNN (Warp) and TTT:TTT (Weft) referred to in Sindex notes where specimen was presented by Gordon Teall in 1986. Glen Clova is a particularly scenic glen in Angus.
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
- pre 1986 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 1371
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1748
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1748
Thread count
DO/78 DY8 DR12 LY4 DR4 W4 DR4 DY24 DO12 DR4 DO12 LY/4
One full sett is 258 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/do39dy4dr6ly2dr2w2dr2dy12do6dr2do6ly2~x2/