Greenock
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 GBRKGKG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1529
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/03/2006 — Greenock (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Harry Sandberg of Greenock who is Baron of Greenock and holder of the undifferentiated arms of Sandberg. This tartan can be worn by anyone associated with the geographical area of Greenock. When woven as a hunting tartan, the green and blue are dark. When woven as a dress tartan all colours are woven 'light and bright'. The colour rationale is explained 'Greenock with hills and moors (green) set on the shores (black) of the Firth of Clyde (blue), with road and rail links (black lines) and sea links (yellow line), in the radiance of the Northern summer night sky over the Firth of Clyde (red line)'. - 2006 March — Greenock (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Harry Sandberg of Greenock, residing in Geneva, who is Baron of Greenock and holder of the undifferentiated arms of Sandberg. Greenock's intention is that this tartan can be worn by anyone associated with Greenock. Official acceptance by an appropriate authority in Greenock or long term use and wont, would alter its category from Fashion to District. When woven as a hunting tartan, the green and blue are dark. When woven as a dress tartan all colours are woven "light and bright" The colour rationale is described as follows: 'Greenock (black) set between the hills and moors (green) and the Firth of Clyde (blue), with links over land by roads and railways (black lines) and over the seas (yellow line), in the radiance ot the Northern summer night sky over the Firth of Clyde (red line).'
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
- 01/03/2006 (this record)
- licence
- Crown copyright
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland - 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: 1529
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6870
Thread count
Y/4 DB34 R4 K32 G34 K4 G/4
One full sett is 224 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/y2db17r2k16g17k2g2~x2/