Glenlivet
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 BGGGBGRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1422
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1989 Designed for Glenlivet Distilleries Ltd, Strathspey.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1987 — Glenlivet (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Harry Lindley of Kinloch Anderson for Glenlivet Distilleries Ltd, Strathspey. - 1989 — Glenlivet Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Gayre Bodyguard (register-of-tartans, record)
Five versions of Gayre tartan are recorded. Hunting, Dress, Bodyguard, Arisaidh and the version recorded by Lord Lyon, the Clan sett. This can be found in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland (1992).
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
- 1987 (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: 1422
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 193
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 193
Thread count
G/18 R6 G75 DB6 G13 DY35 G12 DB/6
One full sett is 318 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/g18r6g75db6g13dy35g12db6/