Glen Orchy #2 or MacIntyre
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 GKRGRBWRGRBRGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1394
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1893 The Glen Orchy sett is sometimes known as the MacIntyre and Glenorchy, although the MacIntyres occupied only part of the Glen.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1822 — Glen Orchy #2 or MacIntyre (register-of-tartans, record)
As Peter MacDonald says in his 1996 Key Patterns Book, there are many versions of the Glenorchy tartan. There is also the added complication of the different versions of the name -Glen Orchy or Glenorchy. Scottish Tartans Society notes say 'The Glen Orchy sett is sometimes known as the MacIntyre and Glenorchy, although the MacIntyres occupied only part of the Glen.' The earliest known date of a Glenorchy tartan is 1822, taken from Wilsons of Bannockburn letters. - 1822 — Glen Orchy #2 (District) (tartans-authority, record)
As Peter MacDonald says in his 1996 Key Patterns Book, there are many versions of the Glenorchy tartan. There is also the added complication with the different version of the name - Glen Orchy and Glenorchy. These records have standardised on 'Glen Orchy'. As with Glen Orchy #1 (2077) STS notes say "The Glen Orchy sett is sometimes known as the MacIntyre and Glenorchy, although the MacIntyres occupied only part of the Glen." The earliest known date from a list compiled by D C Stewart from Wilsons of Bannockburn letters is 1822. - 1893 — Glen Orchy or MacIntyre District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Glen Orchy, or MacIntyre (weddslist, record)
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
- 1822 (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: 1394
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 812
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 812
Thread count
K/4 G4 R6 DB36 R4 G12 R8 LB2 DB12 R6 G36 R6 K4 G/4
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s14/k2g2r3db18r2g6r4lb1db6r3g18r3k2g2~x2/