Glens of Corbie
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 RBGYGYGGY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1436
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1987 — Glens of Corbie (register-of-tartans, record)
Reminds the designer of his local hills and childhood days. There are no Glens of Corbie as such but that was the trading name of Mr Reilly when he operated a small weaving mill in the Scottish Borders. Tartan designed around 1987. Woven sample. - 1987 — Glens of Corbie (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Different warp and weft. Reminds the designer of his local hills and childhood days. There are no Glens of Corbie as such but that was the trading name of Mr Reilly when he operated a small weaving mill in the Scottish Borders. Tartan designed around 1987. Woven sample.
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: 1436
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7263
Thread count
LY/6 DG60 G40 LO12 G6 LO6 G6 DB40 R/4
One full sett is 350 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| G | #5C6428 #5C6428 | oklch(48.3% 0.084 116.0) |
| G | #408060 #408060 | oklch(54.8% 0.084 160.1) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/ly3dg30g20lo6g3lo3g3db20r2x2dg1806142-g1903114/