Duffy
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 GGGKWGG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1008
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1995 — Duffy (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by George Duffy and Connell Reid, the kiltmaker from Blairgowrie in Perthshire, Scotland. The colours were chosen to accord with the Duffy crest which is a yellow lion on a green field. The lion is outlined in black. The new tartan was recorded by the Scottish Tartans Society in 1995. - Feb. 1995 — Duffy (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
This would appear to be either a clan/family or a name tartan which was designed by a George N Duffy and Robin Birch of Messrs, Connell Reid of Balirgowries. The colours are from the Duffy (Irish) coat of arms and the Scottish Tartans Socity reported that it had been sent to the Duffy Clan Association of Ireland for approval.
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
- 1995 (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: 1008
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2172
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2172
Thread count
G/16 DG120 W2 K66 G18 Y8 G/8
One full sett is 452 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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) |
| 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/s7/g8dg60w1k33g9y4g4~x2/