Glen Lyon or Mull (No.53) District 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 KGW.

Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 3 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=24

Provenance

Earliest known date: 1820 Appears to be No 185 in Wilson's '1819'

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 1820 — Glen Lyon or Mull (No.53) District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
  • undated — Glen Lyon, or Mull (No.53) (weddslist, record)
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
1820 (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

  1. House of Tartan
    the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity
  2. 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
  3. this dictionary captured 2026-06-10 · commit 5bf86c7566
    each re-capture is a git commit to data/sources

Thread count

K/10 G6 LB/4

One full sett is 26 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
LB#B5BBDE #B5BBDEoklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)

Sample pattern

K/10 G6 LB/4 tartan

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.

Mull or Glenlyon District TartanGlen Lyon (District)Wilson's, No 50Wilson's No.052Glenlyon #2Wilson's, No 45Wilson's No.050Unidentified pattern #3Wilson's, No 196Brun, Pierre Emmanuel (Personal)groundcomplexity

ID: /variants/s3/k5g3lb2~x2/

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