Teall of Teallach Family Tartan
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 GRKWGBKWK.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1065
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1966 Adopted by the Scottish Tartans Society in recognition of many years service of their chairman, Dr Gordon Teall.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1966 — Teall of Teallach Family Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- pre 1986 — Teall of Teallach (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by the late Dr Gordon Teall of Teallach, one time President of the Scottish Tartans Society. In this version the grey bands of #832 and the woven sample, have been replaced by blue - undated — Teall of Teallach (register-of-tartans, record)
Adopted by the Scottish Tartans Society in recognition of many years service of their late chairman, Dr Gordon Teall of Teallach. D.C. Dalgliesh a weaving firm in Selkirk. - undated — Teall, of Teallach (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1966 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 4083
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1065
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1065
Thread count
K/4 LB12 K2 DB14 G26 W2 K22 R28 Y/4
One full sett is 220 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s9/k2lb6k1db7g13w1k11r14y2~x2/