Gillies
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 BKGRGKGKGRGKBK.
Part of the Gillies 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=1340
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1940 — Gillies (register-of-tartans, record)
This is Gillies as it appears in Scottish Tartans Society records where each alternate blue square has no broad black band through it. Gillies Clan #2 has the broad black band in each blue square. - 1940 — Gillies (Lochcarron) (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This is Gillies as it appears in STS records where each alternate blue square has no broad black band through it. Gillies Clan #2 has the broad black band in each blue square. Not known which is the accepted version.
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
- 1940 (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: 1340
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 324
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 324
Thread count
DB/88 K15 G9 R12 G20 K3 Y8 K6 G20 R12 G9 K15 DB24 K/36
One full sett is 430 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/db88k15g9r12g20k3y8k6g20r12g9k15db24k36/