Blairmore House
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 BWBRBBGG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=294
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2002 Designed by John B Gillespie (Johnsons of Elgin) and Monique Baumann for Blairmore School at Glass in Aberdeenshire.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1995 — Blairmore House (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by John B Gillespie (Johnsons of Elgin) and Monique Baumann for Blairmore School, Glass in Aberdeenshire. - pre 2002 — Blairmore House (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by John B Gillespie (Johnsons of Elgin) and Monique Baumann for Blairmore School at Glass in Aberdeenshire which was established in 1947. - 2002 — Blairmore Corporate School Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 1995 (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: 294
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2221
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2221
Thread count
DB/68 W8 DB8 R8 DB8 DO48 DG64 Y/12
One full sett is 368 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DO | #412714 #412714 | oklch(30.1% 0.050 55.7) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s8/db17w2db2r2db2do12dg16y3~x4/