Balmer (Personal)
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 GRGRBW.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7133
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Dec 2001 — Balmer (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Apparently designed in December 2001 but not 'registered' with the STWR until 2005. For the exclusive family use of Alex Balmer from East Kilbride. Woven by D C Dalgliesh. In January of 2008 a tartan was submitted for the Caledonian Club of San Francisco which was so close to this sett that the STA declined to 'register' it. Alex Balmer also confirmed his wish that the design be reserved for his family only. The CC of San Francisco count (taken from a woven sample) is as follows: Y/4 R4 Y6 R20 K2 B92 W/8. - undated — Balmer (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
For family use of Alex Balmer from East Kilbride.
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
- Dec 2001 (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: 5437
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7133
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 3040
Thread count
Y/4 R10 Y4 R10 DB98 W/4
One full sett is 252 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s6/y2r5y2r5db49w2~x2/