Glenalmond College
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 BKBKBKGRGKBR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1404
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1936 — Glenalmond College (register-of-tartans, record)
From 1936 this modified version of Murray of Atholl was used by Glenalmond College in Perthshire (a private sector school) as its school uniform and for its pipe band. The difference between this and the Murray of Atholl (#281, original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) is that the red line on the blue band is missing its black guards and the green and blue are lighter than the conventional Murray tartan. There are however some kilts and plaids at Blair Castle (ancestral home of the Dukes of Atholl) with the lighter colours although the modern weaves are dark. The green in this graphic is too light. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Lindley Collection. - 1936 — Glenalmond College (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
From 1936 this modified version of Murray of Atholl was used by Glenalmond College in Perthshire (a private sector school) as its school unform and for its pipe band. The difference between this and the Murray of Atholl (#0281) is that the red line on the blue band is missing its black guards and the green and blue are lighter than the conventional Murray tartan. There are however some kilts and plaids at Blair Castle (ancestral home of the Dukes of Atholl) with the lighter colours although the modern weaves are dark. The green in this graphic is too light. Sample in STA's Lindley Collection.
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
- 1936 (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: 1404
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6123
Thread count
DB/24 K4 DB4 K4 DB4 K24 G24 R6 G24 K24 DB24 R/6
One full sett is 314 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| 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/s12/db12k2db2k2db2k12g12r3g12k12db12r3~x2/