Drennan
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 BWGBYKYGBGBG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=975
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — Drennan (register-of-tartans, record)
This is from D.C. Dalgliesh of Selkirk but it is in fact the Paisley District tartan that was designed in 1952 by Allan C. Drennan. D.C. Dalgliesh have changed the green to a lime green but otherwise it is the same tartan. - pre 2002 — Drennan (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
This is from D C Dalgliesh of Selkirk but it is in fact the Paisley District tartan that was designed in 1952 by Allan C. Drennan.. D C Dalgliesh have changed the green to a lime green but otherwise it is the same tartan.
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
- 2002 (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: 975
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4710
Thread count
DB/14 W6 G6 DB36 LY6 K30 LY6 G34 DR12 G6 DR4 G/14
One full sett is 320 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| 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/s12/db7w3g3db18ly3k15ly3g17dr6g3dr2g7~x2/