Grelloch
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 RKRBWR.
Part of the Grelloch tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1536
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1951 — Grelloch (register-of-tartans, record)
A theatrical invention by Molly MacEwan for Clan Bracken which featured in the play 'The Highland Fair' presented at the Edinburgh Festival in 1951. As a rule, only tartans which have been woven are included in this Register but exceptions are made here and there for such items of interest as this. - 1951 — Grelloch (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
A theatrical invention by Molly MacEwan for Clan Bracken which featured in the play 'The Highland Fair' presented at the Highland Festival in 1951.
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
- 1951 (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: 1536
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4001
Thread count
R/8 LB4 DR48 Ri48 K4 Ri/8
One full sett is 224 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as Ri/8 K4 Ri48 DR48 LB4 R8 LB4 DR48 Ri48 K/4 — 436 threads; it folds to the canonical 224-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #A00048 #A00048 | oklch(45.4% 0.182 5.3) |
| R | #C80000 #C80000 | oklch(52.3% 0.215 29.2) |
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/s6/r2lb1dr12ri12k1ri2x4r4518006-ri5221030/