Spirit of Glyndwr Gold (Fashion)
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 KBKBKBKY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=8351
Provenance
Earliest known date: 25th May 2010 Ysbryd yr aur Glyndwr, a modern day plaid, designed and woven in Wales to commemorate Owain Glyn Dwr, crowned Welsh Prince 1406. Colours represent the slates and dark waters of Mid and North Wales, Glyndwrs homeland, with the added Gold yarn representing the gold colour in his standard (flag). Woven by the Cambrian Woollen Mill, Mid Wales exclusively for Wales Tartan Centres, Swansea.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 25th May 2010 — Spirit of Glyndwr Gold (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
A modern day plaid, designed and woven in Wales to comemorate Owain Glyn Dwr, crowned Welsh Prince 1406. Colours represent the slates and dark waters of Mid and North Wales, Glyndwr?s homeland, with the added Gold yarn representing the gold colour in his standard (flag). Woven by the Cambrian Woollen Mill, Mid Wales exclusivley for Wales Tartan Centres, Swansea. - undated — Spirit of Glyndwr Gold Welsh Fashion Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- 25th May 2010 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 8351
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 8351
Thread count
K/24 N18 K11 N4 K11 N18 K53 LY/4
One full sett is 258 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
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/k24n18k11n4k11n18k53ly4/