Eire

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 GYGKBKYYY.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1094

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/1994 — Eire (register-of-tartans, record)
    Tartan designed and copyrighted 1994 by W. H. Johnston as an all-Eire (Southern Ireland) tartan. According to Scottish Tartans Authority's criteria introduced after this tartan was designed, strictly speaking, since this has no official acceptance as the Eire tartan, it should be categorised as 'Fashion'.
  • 1994 — Eire (District?) (tartans-authority, record)
    Tartan designed and copyrighted 1994 by W. H. Johnston as an all-Eire (Southern Ireland) tartan. According to STA criteria introduced after this tartan was designed, strictly speaking, since this has no official acceptance as the Eire tartan, it should be categhorised as 'Fashion'.
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
1994 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

LO/24 LR8 LO40 K12 DR4 K12 G40 LR8 G/24

One full sett is 296 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
DR#55120C #55120Coklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3)
G#008B2A #008B2Aoklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
LR#FF9C97 #FF9C97oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2)
LO#FF9C34 #FF9C34oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8)

Sample pattern

LO/24 LR8 LO40 K12 DR4 K12 G40 LR8 G/24 tartan

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.

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