Goldstraw (Personal)
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 GKYKRKGKGKYKRWGWRKYKGKGKRKYKGK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 30 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1447
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Goldstraw (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by the late Don Smith (2002) of Heraldic Graphics, Glasgow for Martin Goldstraw of Shropshire, England. May be used by anyone of that name or variations such as Goostrey, Goostry, Goostree and Gostre. A tartan for the family of Goldstraw and Goostrey with the permission of Martin S.J. Goldstraw. Estimated thread count for display purposes only. - 2002 — Goldstraw (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by the late Don Smith (2002?) of Heraldic Graphics, Glasgow for Martin Goldstraw of Shropshire, England. May be used by anyone of that name or variations such as Goostrey, Goostry, Goostree and Gostre. Estimated thread count for display purposes only.
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: 1447
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5722
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2862
Thread count
K/4 Y4 K14 LO14 K12 R20 K6 G80 K14 Y4 K4 LO8 K4 R16 W4 G10 W4 R16 K4 LO8 K4 Y4 K14 G80 K6 R20 K12 LO14 K14 Y/4
One full sett is 836 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s16/g5w2r8k2lo4k2y2k7g40k3r10k6lo7k7y2k2~x2/