Glasgow Garden Festival
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 RBRBBWGWBWBWWWBBRBRBRW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1357
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1988 — Glasgow Garden Festival (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Malcolm Campbell of Edinburgh Woollen Mills to commemorate the Glasgow Garden Festival. Malcolm is now (2004) Chief Executive of the Wool Council. The design used the colours of the Festival motif with the red ground chosen as it forms the main primary colour of roses and begonias. The lilac, yellow, turquoise and green overchecking depicts the other floral representations of pansies, violets and daffodils. The grey and white overcheck relates to the walkway around the Festival and the dark navy blue surround depicts the River Clyde flowing past the Festival site. - 1988 — Glasgow Garden Festival (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Malcolm Campbell of Edinburgh Woollen Mills to commemorate the Glasgow Garden Festival. Malcolm is now (2004) Chief Executive of the Wool Council. The design used the colours of the Festival motif with the red ground chosen as it forms the main primary colour of roses and begonias. The lilac, yellow, turquoise and green overchecking depicts the other floral representations of pansies, violets and daffodils. The grey and white overtcheck relates to the walkway around the Festival and the dark navy blue surround depicts the River Clyde flowing past the Festival site. Sample - undated — Glasgow, '88 (weddslist, record)
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
- 1988 (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: 1357
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1631
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1631
Thread count
R/12 N2 R8 DB8 N4 W2 Y2 W2 N2 W4 N2 W2 LB2 W2 N3 DB12 R68 N2 R2 N2 R3 W/4
One full sett is 284 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s22/r12n2r8db8n4w2y2w2n2w4n2w2lb2w2n3db12r68n2r2n2r3w4/