Gretna Football Club
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 KWKWKRKWKWKW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1538
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2006 — Gretna Football Club (register-of-tartans, record)
The offical tartan of Gretna Football Club which incorporates the black and white of the team strip together with the red from the thistle in the club badge. Designed by Graeme Anderson in conjunction with Lochcarron. Anderson Kilts of Gretna are the exclusive suppliers of the tartan and Gretna FC has launched a range of products incorporating the tartan. For further details contact Anderson Kilts or Gretna FC. - 2006 January — Gretna Football Club (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
The offical tartan of Gretna Football Club which incorporates the black and white of the team strip together with the red from the thistle in the club badge. Designed by Graeme Anderson in conjunction with Lochcarron. Anderson Kilts of Getna are the exclusive suppliers of the tartan and Gretna FC has launched a range of products incorporating the tartan. For further details contact Anderson Kilts (01387 250 250) or Gretna FC - 01461 337 602.
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
- 2006 (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: 1538
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6841
Thread count
W/36 K8 W36 K95 W4 K4 R6 K4 W4 K95 W36 K/8
One full sett is 628 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| 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/s7/w36k8w36k95w4k4r6/