Glasgow, City of Culture
In pattern RGRGKWKBYBY.
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripes tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1359
Attestations
This cloth appears in 2 source records; the oldest owns this page.
- 01/01/1989 — Glasgow, City of Culture (register-of-tartans, record)
- 1990? — Culture, The (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Thread count
R/12 G4 R4 G42 K4 W8 K4 DB46 Y4 DB4 Y/12

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2C4084 | 0.05 |
| G | #006818 #006818 | G #006400 | 0.02 |
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | R #C80000 | 0.00 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F4F4F0 | 0.03 |
| Y | #E8C000 #E8C000 | Y #E8C000 | 0.00 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Culture The... Corporate Tartan Tartan Number: 1534. Earliest known date: 1989 Colours chosen to reflect a European essence that will endure beyond the 1990 'Year of Culture'. Supply and manufacture only at MacDonald MacKay (Kiltmakers) Ltd., Glasgow. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 0.12
- Culture, The... — ΔT 0.50
- Dunedin (USA) (District) — ΔT 0.69
- Mary, Queen of Scots — ΔT 0.76
- Ayrton — ΔT 0.80
- Federated Women's Institutes of — ΔT 0.83
- Crosser, Crozier — ΔT 0.86
- Quebec, Plaid Du — ΔT 0.91
- Dunedin — ΔT 0.92
- Dunedin (USA) — ΔT 0.94
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 15726 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s11/r12g4r4g42k4w8k4b46y4b4y12-b2c2c80-g006818-k101010-rc80000-wfcfcfc-ye8c000/