Gemmell Clan/Family Tartan
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 BBBBKGKGKBKBKB.
Part of the Gemmell tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=4125
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2001 Designed for Thomas Gemmell of Gemmell Tartans, Dumfries. Based on the 42nd sett with the proportions of the Military Medal (MM) overlaid on the single tram-line blue square. The MM was won in World War II by Thomas Gemmell's father Charles Nelson Gemmell (1919-1987) who fought in North Africa, Sicily and mainland Italy. He was a sergeant in the Argyle & Sutherland Highlanders, 8th Battalion. Sample in STA Collection. Can be worn by anyone of the name on applicatioin to Thomas Gemmell.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 2001 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
T/32 K4 T4 K4 T4 K20 G24 K4 G24 K20 DB12 T4 DR4 T/4
One full sett is 292 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as T/32 K4 T4 K4 T4 K20 G24 K4 G24 K20 DB12 T4 DR4 T4 DR4 T4 DB12 K20 G24 K4 G24 K20 T4 K4 T4 K/4 — 548 threads; it folds to the canonical 292-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #2888C4 #2888C4 | oklch(60.1% 0.125 241.5) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s14/t8k1t1k1t1k5g6k1g6k5db3t1dr1t1x4t5912243/