Thomas Blake Glover Corporate Tartan
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 BBYBYBBBBBBYBBBBBBYBYB.
Part of the Thomas Blake Glover tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2416
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1996 Two versions of this and it is not known at this stage which is correct. From Lochcarron 1996. According to STS 'Tartans' 1996 this was designed by Johnsons of Elgin for the Thomas Blake Glover Heritage Centre. Thomas Blake Glover was born in Fraserburgh, Scotland. He was the founder of Mitsubishi, the Japanese Mint and the Jappanese ship building industry circa 1860. His house in Nagasaki has over 2 milion visitors a year. STS wesbite version use three colours as against the four in this (original?) version. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. Alsowoven by Lochcarron
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1996 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DR/32 LY12 DR32 LY12 DR32 DB16 DR12 DB8 DR32 DB4 LY2 DB4 DR32 DB8 DR12 DB16 DR32 LY12 DR32 LY12 DR32 DB/8
One full sett is 748 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s22/dr16ly6dr16ly6dr16db8dr6db4dr16db2ly1db2dr16db4dr6db8dr16ly6dr16ly6dr16db4~x2/