GRM
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 RGRGGRGYGBKBGYGRGGRGRR.
Part of the GRM tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1551
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
- 01/11/2000 (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: 1551
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4080
Thread count
R/6 DY4 R10 DG16 DY4 Ri4 DY4 LY4 DY16 B6 K78 B6 DY16 LY4 DY4 Ri4 DY4 DG16 R10 DY4 R6 Ri/4
One full sett is 450 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| B | #466CC8 #466CC8 | oklch(55.1% 0.149 265.0) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DR | #501400 #501400 | oklch(29.1% 0.094 38.4) |
| R | #880000 #880000 | oklch(39.4% 0.162 29.2) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #E8CCB8 #E8CCB8 | oklch(86.3% 0.042 57.7) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| R | #A00048 #A00048 | oklch(45.4% 0.182 5.3) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | oklch(99.1% 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/s22/r3dy2r5dg8dy2ri2dy2ly2dy8b3k39b3dy8ly2dy2ri2dy2dg8r5dy2r3ri2x2r3916030-ri5221030/