Golden Broom
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 GGGBKRKWKGKBKR.
Part of the Golden Broom tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4950
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2005 Designed by pupils of P6 & P7 in Mulbuie Primary School at Muir of Order (northwest of Inverness) during a project on the Jacobites. Mulbuie is the Gaelic for Golden Broom - thus the name of the tartan which has also been chosen as the official design for the 2007 Highland Year of Culture. Burgundy is the school colour, gold is for the golden broom and the greens and browns represent the area's agriculture. Woven sample.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2005 — Golden Broom (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by pupils of P6 & P7 in Mulbuie Primary School at Muir of Order (northwest of Inverness) during a project on the Jacobites. Mulbuie is the Gaelic for Golden Broom - thus the name of the tartan which has also been chosen as the official design for the 2007 Highland Year of Culture. Burgundy is the school colour, gold is for the golden broom and the greens and browns represent the area's agriculture. Woven sample. - 2005 — Golden Broom (Corporate) Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, 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
- 2005 (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: 4950
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7072
Thread count
G/24 Y6 G12 DR38 K2 R16 K4 LB8 K4 G38 K2 DR38 K2 R/18
One full sett is 382 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| R | #E87878 #E87878 | oklch(70.0% 0.139 21.2) |
| LR | #E08070 #E08070 | oklch(70.1% 0.122 30.4) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| 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/s14/g12y3g6dr19k1r8k2lb4k2g19k1dr19k1r9x2r2806019/