Glasgow Celtic Society
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 BGBGBGBGKGKGKGRGBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 18 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1355
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1815 — Glasgow Celtic Society (register-of-tartans, record)
MacGregor Hastie notes / Scottish Tartans Society archive / Highland Society of London collection (started 1815) where the sample is of very rough worsted will shows an incomplete sett with a different warp and weft. All the above mentioned names have some relation to the tartan. Angela Nisbett made the Sindex card out and investigated the highland Society records in detail. This is the warp pattern. The weft starts similarly but seems to end differently although this could be due to the sample being too small to show all. - 1815 — Glasgow Celtic Society (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
From MacGregor Hastie notes made of sample or record in Highland Society of London. An apparently corrupted form of this can be seen at #1951. The Glasgow Celtic Society presented the very first trophy for shinty in 1879. Reports that they formulated the first rules for the game are incorrect. - 01/01/1968 — Forbes of Druminnor (register-of-tartans, record)
Taken from an old rug belonging (in 1968) to the late Hon Peggy Forbes Semphill (daughter of the late Hon. Margaret Forbes-Sempill and owner of Druminnor, formerly Castle Forbes. Reconstruction woven in 1968 by Miss Alison Stewart, Director of Research at the Scottish Tartans Society.
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
- 1815 (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: 1355
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 594
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 594
Thread count
K/12 DB6 DG8 R16 DG26 K6 DG6 K6 DG6 K6 DG8 DB8 DY6 DB6 DY6 DB6 DY6 DB/6
One full sett is 282 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s18/k6db3dg4r8dg13k3dg3k3dg3k3dg4db4dy3db3dy3db3dy3db3~x2/