Grandfather Mountain Games (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 RGKBKBY.
Part of the Grandfather Mountain Games tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2198
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1993 — Grandfather Mountain Games (District (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Marjorie Warren, Lake Junaluska, NC, in 1993. The following is an explanation of colours used in designing the tartan. Blue: for the saltire - St Andrews flag. White: for the diagonal cross in the saltire flag. Green: for MacRae meadows where the games take place. Grey: for the granite of Grandfather Mtn that overlooks the games and from which the games derives its name. Black: for the rock formation that is found in the granite of Grandfather Mtn. Red: for the "Fire on the Mountain" ceremony on the Thursday calling the clans together for the week-end's games. The copyright was donated to Grandfather Mtn. Highland Games Inc. who officially adopted the tartan 8 July 1993, endorsed by the Board of Scottish Heritage USA, Inc. , sponsors on 10 July 1993. Woven sample. - 01/01/1994 — Grandfather Mountain Games (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Marjorie Warren, Lake Junaluska, NC, in 1993. The following is an explanation of colours used in designing the tartan. Blue: for the saltire - St Andrews flag. White: for the diagonal cross in the saltire flag. Green: for MacRae meadows where the games take place. Grey: for the granite of Grandfather Mtn that overlooks the games and from which the games derives its name. Black: for the rock formation that is found in the granite of Grandfather Mtn. Red: for the 'Fire on the Mountain' ceremony on the Thursday calling the clans together for the week-end's games. The copyright was donated to Grandfather Mtn. Highland Games Inc. who officially adopted the tartan 8 July 1993, endorsed by the Board of Scottish Heritage USA, Inc., sponsors on 10 July 1993. Woven sample.
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
- 1993 (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: 1493
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2198
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2198
Thread count
R/6 DG40 K4 N22 K4 DB40 LR/4
One full sett is 230 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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
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