Gallacher, (Name)
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 GKBRWBWBWBWBWBWBWBWG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 20 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10053
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2009 Despite the name of this tartan being A.J. Gallacher, it is not a personal tartan and can be worn by anyone of the name and its spelling variations. Like the other Gallacher/Gallagher at # 4053, it has no known historical significance.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 2009 — Gallacher, (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
Despite the alternate name of this tartan being A.J. Gallacher, it is not a personal tartan and can be worn by anyone of the name and its spelling variations. Like the other Gallacher/Gallagher at # 4053, it has no known historical significance. - 2009 — Gallacher, A.J. Name Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 2009 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 10053
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10053
Thread count
G/14 W2 T14 W4 T12 W6 T10 W8 T8 W10 T6 W12 T4 W14 T2 W16 R62 DR62 K20 G/8
One full sett is 566 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| 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) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s20/g7w1t7w2t6w3t5w4t4w5t3w6t2w7t1w8r31dr31k10g4~x2/