Irish American
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 GGGGRGWGBGKGG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1852
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2004 This is a sister tartan to the Scottish American. A tartan for any Americans of Irish descent.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/10/2003 — Irish American (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Viking Technology Ltd of Designed by Viking Technology Limited (now Tartan Web Scotland Ltd) in 2003 as one of a set of Irish County and Irish National tartans. Ownership transferred to USA Kilts Inc in Dec 2012. - 2004 — Irish American Fancy Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 01/10/2003 (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: 1852
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6104
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2965
Thread count
G/100 DG6 K6 DG18 DB14 DG4 W8 DG4 R10 DG4 G16 DG10 DY/8
One full sett is 308 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #003820 #003820 | oklch(30.0% 0.070 158.3) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DG | #285800 #285800 | oklch(41.0% 0.122 135.8) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s13/g50dg3k3dg9db7dg2w4dg2r5dg2g8dg5dy4x2dg1605139/