O'Keefe
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 KRKYKWKYGRGKGRGYKWKYKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 22 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=4805
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1978 — O'Keefe (register-of-tartans, record)
None - pre 1978 — O'Keefe (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
From Clan Originaux this appears to be a colour variation of MacLean of Duart. see also Tara/Murphy. Sample in STA Johnston Collection. 'Clan Originaux' was published in Paris in 1880 by J. Claude Fres Et Cie. It allegedly contains the earliest known record of a number of Irish tartans and many variations of Scottish Clan tartans. The only copy known to exist was discovered in America and is now in the possession of Pendleton Mills in Portland, Oregon.
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
- 1978 (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: 4805
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1176
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1176
Thread count
K/16 R4 K6 LYi4 K4 W6 K4 LY24 Y44 R4 Y4 K2 Y4 R4 Y44 LY24 K4 W6 K4 LYi4 K6 R/4
One full sett is 432 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| Y | #8C7038 #8C7038 | oklch(56.0% 0.082 83.0) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
| LY | #E8C000 #E8C000 | oklch(81.9% 0.168 93.7) |
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.
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/k8r2k3lyi2k2w3k2ly12y22r2y2k1x2lyi3307090-y2203076/