Lysaght Dress
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 BWBWBWBWBYBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2260
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/03/2005 — Lysaght Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
The Lysaght/MacLysaght Tartan is designed as a Clan/Family Tartan for the descendants of Mac Giolla Iasachta, especially those bearing the Lysaght or MacLysaght surname and variants. This ancient and distinguished family originates in Clan O'Brien, the clan of Ireland's great High King, Brian Boruma mac Cennetig (Brian Boru), from which the Lysaghts broke away circa 1122 to form an independent clan. The tartan is intended especially to honour the Lysaghts of Kilcornan, oldest of the post-mediaeval branches of the family, collectively known in the Gaelic as 'Clann mhic Ghiolla Iasachta Cillecornan'. The (Mac)Lysaght Tartan was commissioned by Thomas A. Lysaght (Tomas Mac Giolla Iasachta), confirmed The Lysaght, Head of the House (Family) of Lysaght by the Chief Herald of Ireland, 6th April 1993. The tartan design is inspired by the armorial bearings of The Lysaght and the Province of Munster, ancestral seat of the clan. It is composed of the colours of the metals, Argent (silver) and Or (gold) and the tinctures, Gules (red) and Azure (blue), of the Lysaght and Munster arms. Three red stripes on a silver field represent the three lances of the Lysaght arms, whilst three gold stripes on a field of blue represent the three crowns of the Munster arms. (These colour descriptions refer to the Standard and Dress setts.) The tartan was designed by Cynthia Balfour-Traill of Woodsboro, Maryland, USA (tartan@thistlestopshop.com). Copyright is held by The Lysaght, Thomas A. Lysaght (Tomas Mac Giolla Iasachta), of Zwettl, Austria. Liberal permission will be granted for use as a clan/family tartan. - 2005 March — Lysaght Dress (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
The Lysaght/MacLysaght Tartan is designed as a Clan/Family Tartan for the descendants of Mac Giolla Iasachta, especially those bearing the Lysaght or MacLysaght surname and variants. This ancient and distinguished family originates in Clan O'Brien, the clan of Ireland's great High King, Brian B?ruma mac Cenn?tig (Brian Boru), from which the Lysaghts broke away circa 1122 to form an independent clan. The tartan is intended especially to honour the Lysaghts of Kilcornan, oldest of the post-mediaeval branches of the family, collectively known in the Gaelic as 'Clann mhic Ghiolla Iasachta Cillecorn?n'. The (Mac)Lysaght Tartan was commissioned by Thomas A. Lysaght (Tom?s Mac Giolla Iasachta), confirmed The Lysaght, Head of the House (Family) of Lysaght by the Chief Herald of Ireland, 6th April 1993. The tartan design is inspired by the armorial bearings of The Lysaght and the Province of Munster, ancestral seat of the clan. It is composed of the colours of the metals, Argent (silver) and Or (gold) and the tinctures, Gules (red) and Azure (blue), of the Lysaght and Munster arms. Three red stripes on a silver field represent the three lances of the Lysaght arms, whilst three gold stripes on a field of blue represent the three crowns of the Munster arms. (These colour descriptions refer to the Standard and Dress setts.) The tartan was designed by Cynthia Balfour-Traill of Woodsboro, Maryland, USA (tartan@thistlestopshop.com). Copyright is held by The Lysaght, Thomas A. Lysaght (Tom?s Mac Giolla Iasachta), of Zwettl, Austria. Liberal permission will be granted for use as a clan/family tartan.
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
- 01/03/2005 (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: 2260
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6593
Thread count
DR/24 W16 DR24 W44 DB4 W12 DB12 W4 DB44 LY24 DB16 LY/24
One full sett is 448 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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.
ΔTartan
Threads
Variant
Sett
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448
448
256
254
614
304
284
304
272
944
256
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/s12/dr6w4dr6w11db1w3db3w1db11ly6db4ly6~x4/