William Glen and Son
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 BKBKBWKBWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10458
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/2010 — William Glen and Son (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Darren Purse and Gemma Teviotdale to commemorate 140 years of trading within Scotland and latterly in Canada and USA by William Glen and Son. The colours chosen reflect the landscape of Callander, where William Glen and Son is based. Callander is a small village sitting at the foot of Ben Ledi (Beacon Mountain). It lies within The Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park, which encompasses the Ben Lomond National Memorial Park, (Designated Memorial) for the First and Second World Wars. The Glen family estate, Callandrade, sits directly within these parameters in Callander. Colours: charcoal represents Ben Ledi; white represents the snow-clad hills; grey represents the waters of Loch Lomond; black represents the darkness of War and those who have fallen; burgundy represents the Autumn colours of the Trossachs. - 1st July 2010 — William Glen & Son (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Darren Purse and Gemma Teviotdale to commemorate 140 years of trading within Scotland and latterly in Canada and USA by William Glen and Son. The colours chosen reflect the landscape of Callander, where William Glen and Son is based. The Glen family estate, Callandrade, sits directly within these parameters in Callander. Colours: charcoal represents Ben Ledi; white represents the snow-clad hills; grey represents the waters of Loch Lomond; black represents the darkness of War and those who have fallen; burgundy represents the Autumn colours of the Trossachs.
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
- 01/07/2010 (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: 10458
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10458
Thread count
DR/12 K6 N8 K20 N10 LB4 K4 N62 W2 N4 W/4
One full sett is 256 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) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s11/dr6k3n4k10n5lb2k2n31w1n2w2~x2/