O'Sullivan-Beare
Bands: KRWKWKWKWKWRKR · Stripes: K O LB K LB K LB K LB K LB O K O K O LB K LB K LB K LB K LB O K O
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3274
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3274
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5883
Thread count
K/48 Na16 N6 K6 N6 K6 N80 K6 N6 K6 N6 Na16 K48 Na/16

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | #101010 #101010 | K #000000 | 0.17 |
| LN | #E0E0E0 #E0E0E0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.07 |
| N | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
| Na | #888888 #888888 | R #CC0000 | 0.24 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- Hanna — ΔT 0.96
- Auld Lang Syne, Grey (Fashion) — ΔT 1.13
- Stewart Grey Dress Tartan Tartan Number: 17911. Earliest known date: Estimated Threadcount. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.14
- Swansea City AFC — ΔT 1.17
- Hanna Personal Tartan Tartan Number: 619. Earliest known date: 1987 Found in a the Hanna family bible of a civil war veteran by Charles Milton Hanna, Freeport, PA, USA, who sent information to the Scottish Tartan Society in 1987. The STS records the blue square as blue 4 and white 2, which gives a tweed like pattern to that section. See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.18
- Scott, (MacRae) — ΔT 1.21
- Menzies Black Dress — ΔT 1.23
- Hanna (Bible) — ΔT 1.24
- Abergavenny — ΔT 1.26
- Fraser, Arisaid — ΔT 1.27
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
ID: /setts/s14/k24o8lb3k3lb3k3lb40k3lb3k3lb3o8k24o8~x2/