Leask
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 GGRGGGGGRKRWRG.
Part of the Leask 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=2076
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/04/1981 — Leask (register-of-tartans, record)
Recorded in Lyon Court Book 44 (15/09/1982). First woven by Scott Brothers of Wilton Mills, Hawick. For Madam Leask of Leask, Sheringham, Norfolk. Design could have been by Scott Brothers but Tartans Society was mentioned in other literature as was Madam Leask. Samples in Scottish Tartans Authority Dalgety Collection of modern colours and repro. - April 1981 — Leask (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Recorded in Lyon Court Book 44. 15th September 1982. First woven by Scott Brothers of Wilton Mills, Hawick. For Madam Leask of Leask, Sheringham, Norfolk. Design could have been by Scott Brothers but Tartans Society was mentioned in other literature as was Madam Leask. Samples in STA Dalgety Collection of modern colours and repro.
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
- 01/04/1981 (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: 2076
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 905
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 905
Thread count
Y/8 G6 R4 G24 Y4 G6 Y4 G24 R48 K2 R4 W2 R4 G/8
One full sett is 280 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/y4g3r2g12y2g3y2g12r24k1r2w1r2g4~x2/