Glengoyne Distillery
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 BKBKBKBKYKBKBKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1420
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1993 — Glengoyne Distillery (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for the Glengoyne Distillery by Lochcarron of Scotland in 1993. Lang Brothers Ltd Glasgow. Registered 1994. - 1993 — Glengoyne Distillery (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Glengoyne Distillery is in Stirlingshire about seven miles from Loch Lomond at the north west end of the Campsie Hills. The Tartans Society graphic is incorrect in that it uses green instead of 'heather'.
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
- 1993 (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: 1420
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1144
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1144
Thread count
DB/22 K6 DB6 K6 DB6 K18 DP18 K2 LY6 K2 DP18 K18 DB18 K2 W/6
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
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/s15/db11k3db3k3db3k9dp9k1ly3k1dp9k9db9k1w3~x2/