Gudbrandsdalen of Mannsdrakt
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 BYBBGBBGBGBBGBBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 16 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1555
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1830 — Gudbrandsdalen of Mannsdrakt (register-of-tartans, record)
From a sample of fabric used to make a true copy of the original jacket from Bjornsgaard Farm, Dovre, Norway. Scottish Tartans Society gives the name of Mrs Gunhild Lochen, Vagamo. This is part of the collection of Norwegian district tartans presented to the Scottish Tartans Society by Erik Paulsen in 1992. It has been claimed by the Sinclairs that both Guldbrandsdalen tartans owe their origins to Scottish soldiers fighting in the battle of Kringellen in Norway in 1612. For various accounts of that battle visit http://clansinclairusa.org/clansinclairold/ev_cru_kringen.htm. - 01/01/1992 — Norwegian - Guldbrandsdalen (register-of-tartans, record)
This appears to be a duplicate of #2081 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference). Sample is of off cut of hard tartan woven in plain weave - from fabric used to make a true copy of the original jacket in the possession of Bjornsgaard Farm, Dovre, Norway. Part of the collection of Norwegian district tartans presented to the Scottish Tartans Society by Erik Paulsen in 1992. Scottish-Norwegian connections are explored in a research report available from the Scottish Tartans Society. - pre 1992 — Gudbrandsdalen of Mannsdrakt (Dist) (tartans-authority, record)
Sample is off cut of hard tartan woven in plain weave - from fabric used to make a true copy of the original jacket in the possession of Bjornsgaard Farm, Dovre, Norway. Part of the collection of Norwegian district tartans presented to the Scottish Tartans Society by Erik Paulsen in 1992. Scottish-Norwegian connections are explored in a research report available from the STS. www.tartan.no adds the following: " the tartan is approved by the Bunad-og Folkedrakts council."
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
- 1830 (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: 3164
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2081
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2081
Thread count
G/176 DR12 DO24 G24 DR8 DO4 G8 DR40 G8 DO4 DR8 G24 DO24 DR12 LR4 DR/168
One full sett is 752 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/s16/g44dr3do6g6dr2do1g2dr10g2do1dr2g6do6dr3lr1dr42~x4/