Glen Lyon (District)
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 KGW.
Part of the Glen Lyon tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 3 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=24
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1819 — Glen Lyon (District) (tartans-authority, record)
This is recorded by Gordon Teall in' District Tartans' but no background is given to its choice as the Mull district tartan. Writing in 1996, Peter MacDonald said that in recent years this pattern has been promoted as the Glenlyon District Tartan although it is clear it started life as a Fancy Pattern. This tartan is specifically mentioned by Telford Dunbar in his 1962 'History of Highland Dress' (Page149) when he included it in a list of William Wilson's tartans that were most popular in 1822. - pre 2002 — Mull (District) (tartans-authority, record)
The proportions given in District Tartans differ from those recorded in the ITI as Wilsons No 53. Here the black is much wider. How this came to be named 'Mull' is not recorded.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 1819 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 162
Thread count
K/10 G8 LB/6
One full sett is 32 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 0.55 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s3/k5g4lb3~x2/