Glasgow, City of Culture
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 GBGBKWKGRGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1359
Provenance
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.
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1989 — Glasgow, City of Culture (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by MacDonald and MacKay kiltmakers, Glasgow, in recognition of City of Glasgow having been designated European City of Culture, 1990. Also known as The Culture. Woven by Lochcarron. - 1989 — Culture The... Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 1990? — Culture, The (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Glasgow kiltmakers MacDonald & MacKay Ltd with colours representing a 'European essence' that will endure beyond the 1990 'Year of Culture'. Manufacture & supply only from MacDonald & Mackay. Sample. - undated — Culture, The... (weddslist, record)
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
- 1989 (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: 1359
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1534
Thread count
R/12 G4 R4 G42 K4 W8 K4 DB46 Y4 DB4 Y/12
One full sett is 264 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s11/r6g2r2g21k2w4k2db23y2db2y6~x2/