diff --git a/src/gsi/gsi/gsiDeclTl.cc b/src/gsi/gsi/gsiDeclTl.cc
index f9adbbb77..2840a21c7 100644
--- a/src/gsi/gsi/gsiDeclTl.cc
+++ b/src/gsi/gsi/gsiDeclTl.cc
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #include "tlTimer.h"
 #include "tlProgress.h"
 #include "tlExpression.h"
+#include "tlGlobPattern.h"
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------
 //  Logger binding
@@ -557,6 +558,87 @@ Class<ExpressionWrapper> decl_ExpressionWrapper ("tl", "Expression",
   "This class has been introduced in version 0.25.\n"
 );
 
+
+static tl::GlobPattern *new_glob_pattern (const std::string &s)
+{
+  return new tl::GlobPattern (s);
+}
+
+namespace {
+
+template <class Iter>
+struct to_var_iterator
+  : public Iter
+{
+  typedef typename Iter::value_type original_value_type;
+  typedef typename tl::Variant *pointer;
+  typedef typename tl::Variant &reference;
+  typedef typename Iter::difference_type difference_type;
+
+  to_var_iterator (const Iter &iter)
+    : Iter (iter)
+  { }
+
+  pointer operator-> ()
+  {
+    m_var = tl::Variant (Iter::operator* ());
+    return &m_var;
+  }
+
+  reference operator* ()
+  {
+    m_var = tl::Variant (Iter::operator* ());
+    return m_var;
+  }
+
+private:
+  tl::Variant m_var;
+};
+
+}
+
+static tl::Variant match (const tl::GlobPattern *pattern, const std::string &s)
+{
+  std::vector<std::string> brackets;
+  if (pattern->match (s, brackets)) {
+    return tl::Variant (to_var_iterator<std::vector<std::string>::const_iterator> (brackets.begin ()), to_var_iterator<std::vector<std::string>::const_iterator> (brackets.end ()));
+  } else {
+    return tl::Variant ();
+  }
+}
+
+Class<tl::GlobPattern> decl_GlobPattern ("tl", "GlobPattern",
+  gsi::constructor ("new", &new_glob_pattern, gsi::arg ("pattern"),
+    "@brief Creates a new glob pattern match object\n"
+  ) +
+  gsi::method ("case_sensitive=", &tl::GlobPattern::set_case_sensitive, gsi::arg ("case_sensitive"),
+    "@brief Sets a value indicating whether the glob pattern match is case sensitive."
+  ) +
+  gsi::method ("case_sensitive", &tl::GlobPattern::case_sensitive,
+    "@brief Gets a value indicating whether the glob pattern match is case sensitive."
+  ) +
+  gsi::method ("head_match=", &tl::GlobPattern::set_header_match, gsi::arg ("head_match"),
+    "@brief Sets a value indicating whether trailing characters are allowed.\n"
+    "If this predicate is false, the glob pattern needs to match the full subject string. "
+    "If true, the match function will ignore trailing characters and return true if the "
+    "front part of the subject string matches."
+  ) +
+  gsi::method ("head_match", &tl::GlobPattern::header_match,
+    "@brief Gets a value indicating whether trailing characters are allowed.\n"
+  ) +
+  gsi::method_ext ("match", &match, gsi::arg ("subject"),
+    "@brief Matches the subject string against the pattern.\n"
+    "Returns nil if the subject string does not match the pattern. Otherwise returns a list "
+    "with the substrings captured in round brackets."
+  ),
+  "@brief A glob pattern matcher\n"
+  "This class is provided to make KLayout's glob pattern matching available to scripts too. "
+  "The intention is to provide an implementation which is compatible with KLayout's pattern "
+  "syntax.\n"
+  "\n"
+  "This class has been introduced in version 0.26."
+);
+
 }
 
 
diff --git a/testdata/ruby/tlTest.rb b/testdata/ruby/tlTest.rb
index f10ceeb59..3874931f8 100644
--- a/testdata/ruby/tlTest.rb
+++ b/testdata/ruby/tlTest.rb
@@ -215,6 +215,48 @@ class Tl_TestClass < TestBase
 
   end
 
+  # Glob pattern
+  def test_3_GlobPattern
+
+    pat = RBA::GlobPattern::new("a*b")
+
+    assert_equal(pat.case_sensitive, true)
+    assert_equal(pat.head_match, false)
+
+    assert_equal(pat.match("ab") != nil, true)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("axb") != nil, true)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("Axb") != nil, false)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("abx") != nil, false)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("xab") != nil, false)
+
+    pat.case_sensitive = false
+    assert_equal(pat.case_sensitive, false)
+
+    assert_equal(pat.match("ab") != nil, true)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("axb") != nil, true)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("Axb") != nil, true)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("abx") != nil, false)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("xab") != nil, false)
+
+    pat.head_match = true
+    assert_equal(pat.head_match, true)
+
+    assert_equal(pat.match("ab") != nil, true)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("axb") != nil, true)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("Axb") != nil, true)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("abx") != nil, true)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("abx") == [], true)
+    assert_equal(pat.match("xab") != nil, false)
+
+    pat = RBA::GlobPattern::new("(*)a(*)")
+
+    assert_equal(pat.match("xb") != nil, false)
+    res = pat.match("xab")
+    assert_equal(res != nil, true)
+    assert_equal(res.join("/"), "x/b")
+
+  end
+
 end
 
 load("test_epilogue.rb")