Bailey, The House of
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 BKWKBKGKGKGKBKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=161
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/07/2005 — Bailey, The House of (register-of-tartans, record)
After the rematriculation of the Bailey Grant of Arms, family members wanted their own tartan. Designed for Clan Bailey International (www.clanbailey.com) by Dale Imbleau and based on the Baillie fencibles. Applicant: Chevalier Douglas Buchanan Bailey. - 2005 July — Bailey, The House of (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
After the rematriculation of the Bailey Grant of Arms, family members wanted their own tartan. Designed for Clan Bailey International (www.clanbailey.com] by Dale Imbleau and based on the Baillie fencibles (#5707). Applicant Chevalier Douglas Buchanan Bailey. Woven Sample. Marton Mills.
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
- 01/07/2005 (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: 161
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6675
Thread count
DB/28 K4 LB4 K4 DB4 K4 G26 K2 Y5 K2 G26 K4 DB40 K4 R/10
One full sett is 296 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| 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/s15/db28k4lb4k4db4k4g26k2y5k2g26k4db40k4r10/