Gammell (Brown) (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 BGBGBGGG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1313
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1989 — Gammell (Brown) (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
The correct Gammell is said to be #597 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) but this version shown here appears frequently in the Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection. Obtained from Trudi Mann, 1989, whose record says count obtainable only from Strathmore Woollen Company Ltd. Forfar. This version has brown line on green. See #597 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) for maroon line version. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Dalgety Collection. Thomas Gemmell said that this was designed in the 1960s by the mother of a Mr & Mrs White and that it was restricted. - 1989 — Gammell (Brown) (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
The correct Gammell is said to be #0597 but this version shown here appears frequently in the STA Dalgety Collection. Obtained from Trudi Mann, 1989, whose record says count obtainable only from Strathmore Woollen Company Ltd. Forfar. This version has brown line on green. see #597 for maroon line version. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. Sample in STA Dalgety Collection. Thomas Gemmell said that this was designed in the 1960s by the mother of a Mr & Mrs White and that it was restricted.
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
- 1989 (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: 1313
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4959
Thread count
DB/40 DY4 DB4 DY4 DB4 DY12 G30 DY/4
One full sett is 160 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) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/db20dy2db2dy2db2dy6g15dy2~x2/