Allen (1998)
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 GRGKBGBKBKBKBKBRBKGRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 21 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=56
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1997 — Allen (1998) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for Christopher Allen Holler of Winter Park Florida and for use by anyone of the name Allen or any of its variations. - pre 1998 — Allen (1998) (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed for Christopher Allen Holler of Winter Park Florida and for use by anyone of the name Allen or any of its variations. (STS). There now appear to be two Allen tartans in this category see ITI 2519. This is what can happen when reference to one major information source on tartan is either not available or is not made.
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
- 1997 (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: 56
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2482
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2482
Thread count
G/4 R4 G24 K8 DB22 R4 DB22 K8 DB4 K18 DB4 K18 DB4 K8 DB22 DY4 DB22 K8 G24 R4 G/4
One full sett is 472 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 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/s21/g2r2g12k4db11dy2db11k4db2k9db2k9db2k4db11r2db11k4g12r2g2~x2/