Gallaecia (Unofficial) (District)
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 BWBWW.
Part of the Gallaecia tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7820
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2008 — Gallaecia (Unofficial) (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Created by Santiago Bern?rdez in apparent oppostion to 4946 (Galicia) which was designed by Dr. Phil Smith. This is now claimed to be the official Galician tartan for that autonomous region of Spain but no documentary proof of that claim is to hand. Galicia is an autonomous community in northwest Spain, and was one of the first kingdoms of Europe (Kingdom of Galicia). Its component provinces are A Coru?a, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. It borders Portugal to the south, the Spanish regions of Castile and Le?n and Asturias to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west. - undated — Gallaecia (Unofficial) (register-of-tartans, record)
Created by Santiago Bernárdez in apparent oppostion to 4946 (Galicia) which was designed by Dr. Phil Smith. This is now claimed to be the official Galician tartan for that autonomous region of Spain but no documentary proof of that claim is to hand. Galicia is an autonomous community in northwest Spain, and was one of the first kingdoms of Europe (Kingdom of Galicia). Its component provinces are A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. It borders Portugal to the south, the Spanish regions of Castile and Leon and Asturias to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west.
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
- 2008 (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: 5776
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7820
Thread count
DB/48 LB26 DB8 LB8 W/4
One full sett is 136 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 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 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/s5/db24lb13db4lb4w2~x2/