Deas
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 BKBKGKGKGKRKRK.
Part of the Deas tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 14 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=903
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1950 — Deas (register-of-tartans, record)
The name Deas is described as an 'alias' for Davidson in historic records, and is a recognised sept of Clan Dhai (Davidson). - pre 1950 — Deas (Name) (tartans-authority, record)
An asymmetirc tartan said to originally come from a pattern book of Garry & Deas of Perth. Count from McGregor Hastie. Woven samples, one of which is labelled "Jack Dalgety, July '85." Two woven samples one in ancient colours and one in modern. The black and blue in the modern version are almost indistinguishable.
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
- 1950 (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: 903
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2153
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2153
Thread count
DB/42 K4 DB4 K24 Y6 K24 G4 K4 G42 K4 R16 K12 R16 K/4
One full sett is 366 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s14/db21k2db2k12y3k12g2k2g21k2r8k6r8k2~x2/