Spirit of Glyndwr Red (Fashion)
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 KBKBKBKR.
Part of the Spirit of Glyndwr tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=8352
Provenance
Earliest known date: 20th May 2010 Ysbryd yr coch Glyndwr, a modern day plaid, designed and woven in Wales to commemorate Owain Glyn Dwr, crowned Welsh Prince 1406. Colours represent the slates and dark waters of Mid and North Wales, Glyndwrs homeland, with the added Scarlet Red yarn representing the predominant colour in his standard (flag). Woven by the Cambrian Woollen Mill, Mid Wales exclusively for Wales Tartan Centres, Swansea.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 20th May 2010 — Spirit of Glyndwr Red (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
A modern day plaid, designed and woven in Wales to comemorate Owain Glyn Dwr, crowned Welsh Prince 1406. Colours represent the slates and dark waters of Mid and North Wales, Glyndwr?s homeland, with the added Scarlet Red yarn representing the predominant colour in his standard (flag). Woven by the Cambrian Woollen Mill, Mid Wales exclusivley for Wales Tartan Centres, Swansea. - undated — Spirit of Glyndwr Red Welsh Fashion Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 20th May 2010 (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: 8352
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 8352
Thread count
K/24 N18 K11 N4 K11 N18 K53 R/4
One full sett is 258 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
Sample pattern
Compared to the master
This cloth is one sett of its design; the master sett (the exemplar the design is anchored on) is below for comparison.
Its ΔTartan distance from the master is 1.05 — the same measure the nearest-tartans table ranks by (0 is identical; a re-scale of the same cloth is near 0, a recolour or a different proportion further).
this sett
master sett ★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/s8/k24n18k11n4k11n18k53r4/