Cailleach
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 GRGBWBKBK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10152
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 23/11/2009 — Cailleach (register-of-tartans, record)
In honour of the Goddess who is honoured and celebrated through the Winter: her face is the moon; her spirit, the force that draws the tides; her breath, the cold wind; her body, the very earth that rises above the sea. The colours signify the darkness of the Winter season; the deep ocean; the foam from the waves under the reflection of the moon with a touch of snow on the ground; the evergreens that live through the season and their fruits and berries which remind us that life will continue even through the darkest of days. - 23rd Nov. 2009 — Cailleach (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
In honor of the Goddess. She is honored and celebrated throughout the Winter; her face is the moon; her spirit, the force that draws the tides; her breath, the cold wind; her body, the very earth that rises above the sea. The colours signify the darkness of the Winter season; the deep ocean; the foam from the waves under the reflection of the moon with a touch of snow on the ground; the evergreens that live through the season and their fruits and berries which remind us that life will continue even through the darkest of days...as is the very history of Scotland.
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
- 23/11/2009 (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: 10152
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10152
Thread count
K/30 DB20 K10 DB5 W2 DB10 DG20 R2 DG/10
One full sett is 178 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
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/s9/k30db20k10db5w2db10dg20r2dg10/