Pitt (Glasgow)

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 BBWBRB.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10376

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 02/07/2010 — Pitt (Glasgow) (register-of-tartans, record)
    Designed for Mr Ronald Pitt (Senior) on the occasion of his 60th birthday by his son, Ronnie Pitt. The Pitt name originated in Belgium, and many in the family now live in Birmingham. Ronnie Pitt was born in Scotland establishing a Scottish branch of the family that the new tartan will represent. The Pitt tartan may be used by anyone of the same name.
  • 2nd July 2010 — Pitt (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
    Designed for Mr Ronald Pitt (Senior) on the occasion of his 60th birthday by his son, Ronnie Pitt. The Pitt name originated in Belgium, and many in the family now live in Birmingham. Ronnie Pitt was born in Scotland establishing a Scottish branch of the family that the new tartan will represent. The Pitt tartan may be used by anyone of the same name.
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
02/07/2010 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

T/46 DB36 W10 DB4 R28 DB/36

One full sett is 238 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
T#00879F #00879Foklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

T/46 DB36 W10 DB4 R28 DB/36 tartan

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.

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