Gayre
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 KRGWGRKWGWGWKGW.
Part of the Gayre tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1319
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1981 — Gayre (register-of-tartans, record)
Five versions of Gayre tartan are recorded. Hunting, Dress, Bodyguard, Arisaidh and the version recorded by Lord Lyon, the Clan sett. This can be found in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland (1992). From swatch received from Captain of Clan Gayre, Edinburgh, 1981. - ? — Gayre (Clan ?) (tartans-authority, record)
From swatch in the Tony Murray Collection labelled Gayre/Gair Clan Tartan but differing from 164 (also claimed as the clan tartan) in that the black pivot in this one is centred on red and not on green as shown in 164. None of the weavers produce Gayre so at the moment there is no way of ascertaining the most widey 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
- 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: 1319
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 8876
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 164
Thread count
LBi/40 G8 K8 LB8 G32 LBi8 G32 LB8 K8 R12 G8 LB8 G6 R12 K/8
One full sett is 364 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) |
| LB | #98C8E8 #98C8E8 | oklch(81.0% 0.068 237.9) |
| LB | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | oklch(80.8% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s15/lbi20g4k4lb4g16lbi4g16lb4k4r6g4lb4g3r6k4x2lbi3203246-lb3200000/