Greyfriars

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 BRGBGBGGGBG.

Part of the Greyfriars tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 11 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10337

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
14/12/2010 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

DB/30 R6 DY16 DP8 G10 DP14 G24 Y4 DY10 DP3 DY/28

One full sett is 248 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
DP#4B0B4F #4B0B4Foklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4)
Y#8B6E00 #8B6E00oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)
DY#3A2B0D #3A2B0Doklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)

Sample pattern

DB/30 R6 DY16 DP8 G10 DP14 G24 Y4 DY10 DP3 DY/28 tartan

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.

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