Eusa
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 KGRGBWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10236
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 03/02/2010 — Eusa (register-of-tartans, record)
Following the visit of MSP Rob Gibson to his island home, Serge Cariou(Ouessant, Brittany, France) decided to design his own tartan. Colours: the red, yellow and black represent the flag of the Isle of Ushant (Breton: Enez Eusa, French: Ouessant); the black, green and white check represents Brittany. Rob Gibson is Vice-President of Brittany-Scotland Association. Jean-Yves Cozan, who represents the Ouessant Township and the District of Ouessant on the County Council of Finistere, has authorised the use of the name 'Oeussant' and 'Eusa' for the registration of this tartan. - 3rd Feb 2010 — Eusa (District) (tartans-authority, record)
Following the visit of MSP Rob Gibson to his island home, Serge Cariou (Ouessant, Brittany, France) decided to design his own tartan. Colours: the red, yellow and black represent the flag of the Isle of Ushant (Breton: Enez Eusa, French: Ouessant); the black, green and white check represents Brittany. Rob Gibson is Vice-President of Brittany-Scotland Association. Developed for weaving by House of Tartan who are the sole official source for this tartan. The isle of Ushant is a small island off the Atlantic coast of France has adopted its own tartan to mark its Celtic heritage. The cloth includes black and white stripes which come from the Breton flag and red and yellow to reflect the island's crest. Designer Serge Cariou said: "A few of us wear kilts on Ouessant, to cock a snook at outsiders as a joke. So, after a trip to Scotland, we thought 'Why not design a tartan in our island's colours'?" Ouessant, known as Enez Eusa in Breton and Ushant in English, lies about 20 miles off the Breton peninsula, making it the most westerly inhabited territory in France. It shares Brittany's Celtic culture and traditions. The new Ouessant tartan also has blue and green elements in honour of the robes of ancient Celtic druids and bards, according to Mr Cariou. He added: "Those are the colours of the Eussaf clan, an ancient family that gave its name to Ouessant. Jean-Yves Cozan, Ouessant regional councillor said: "This tartan is not a gimmick, it's an act of cultural identity to assert that we have roots." Mr Cozan authorised the use of the name Ouessant and Eusa for the registration of the tartan.
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
- 03/02/2010 (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: 10236
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10236
Thread count
K/32 Y32 R32 G6 DB14 W14 K/14
One full sett is 242 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| 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) |
| 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/s7/k16y16r16g3db7w7k7~x2/