Glen Trool (Fashion)
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 GRGBR.
Part of the Glen Trool tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=914
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1984 — Glen Trool (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. - 01/01/1988 — Glen Trool (register-of-tartans, record)
Glen Trool is in the Galloway Uplands in the Southwest of Scotland. The tartan began life as a trade sett - a colourful fashion fabric - and was given a name merely to identify it. It proved very popular and is now recognised as a District Tartan. Scottish Tartans Society archive.
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
- pre 1984 (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 Register of Tartans: 1401
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 914
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 914
Thread count
DG/84 O20 DG6 DR20 O/6
One full sett is 182 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
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/s5/dg42o10dg3dr10o3~x2/