Balnagowan (Harrods)
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 GGRGRGKGKGRGRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=187
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/09/2002 — Balnagowan (Harrods) (register-of-tartans, record)
The current Chairman of Harrods, Mohammed al Fayed, owns Balnagowan Castle an ancient seat of the Ross family. The tartan is produced for a unique identity/special Harrods merchandise range. - May 2003 — Balnagown (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Kinloch Anderson of Edinburgh and based on the Ross Hunting tartan which is worn in the area where the Chairman of Harrods (Al Fayed) has his Scottish estate. Thread count estimated from a computer graphic for display purposes only. Thought to be for pipe band use mainly - Piob Mhor of Blairgowrie making the bandsmen's plaids.
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
- 01/09/2002 (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: 187
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5824
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2925
Thread count
Y/6 DY6 R2 Y4 R2 DY40 K10 DY8 K10 DY6 R4 DY6 O14 DY/4
One full sett is 234 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| 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/y3dy3r1y2r1dy20k5dy4k5dy3r2dy3o7dy2~x2/