Gallowater New District Tartan
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 GGWBWKR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1571
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1819 The Gallowater district tartan, sometimes referred to as the 'Gala Water' was first mentioned in the records of Wilson's of Bannockburn in 1793. The design progressed until 1819 when this 'New' sett was recorded in the company's pattern book with a red band and a thin white stripe.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1819 — Gallowater New District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Gala Water New (register-of-tartans, record)
The Gallowater district tartan, sometimes referred to as the 'Gala Water' was first mentioned in the records of Wilson's of Bannockburn in 1793. The design progressed until 1819 when this 'New' sett was recorded in the company's pattern book with a red band and a thin white stripe. Wilsons of Bannockburn a weaving firm founded c1770 near Stirling. The Pattern books are in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh. Copiess of the Pattern books and letters are in the Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — Gallowater, New (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 1296
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1571
Thread count
R/10 K32 LB14 DP32 W2 G42 Y/10
One full sett is 264 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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/s7/r5k16lb7dp16w1g21y5~x2/