Hayes
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 GYGRGRGRGRGRYRGRGRGRGRGYGR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 26 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1636
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1970 — Hayes (register-of-tartans, record)
Same as Hay V.S. #1555 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) except that the proportions have changed slightly. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Woven by Lochcarron 2004/5 - this may have became accepted as a Clan/Family tartan now. - pre 1970 — Hayes (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
Same as Hay V.S. (#1555) except that the proportions have changed slightly. Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. Woven by Lochcarron 2004/5 - perhaps this has become accepted as a Clan/Family tartan now?
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
- 1970 (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: 1636
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5168
Thread count
R/8 G4 LO4 G48 R4 G4 R4 G16 R68 G12 R8 G4 R8 LR8 R8 G4 R8 G12 R68 G16 R4 G4 R4 G48 LO4 G/4
One full sett is 756 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) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/r2g1lo1g12r1g1r1g4r17g3r2g1r2lr2~x4/