Gayre Bodyguard (Clan)
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 KRGWGRKWGBGWKGR.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1154
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1800? — Gayre Bodyguard (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
No details known. Presumably woven by Lochcarron since the incorrect version of this shown at ITI 197 was produced by them. Bill Johnston notes suggest that it is restricted to the Chief's bodyguard. Woven sample. - undated — Gayre Bodyguard #2 (register-of-tartans, record)
No details known. Presumably woven by Lochcarron since the incorrect version of this shown at ITI 197 was produced by them. Bill Johnston notes sat restricted to the Chief's bodyguard. Woven sample. Five versions of Gayre tartan are recorded. Hunting, Dress, Bodyguard, Arisaidh and the version recorded by Lord Lyon, the Clan sett. This can be found in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland (1992). Scottish Tartans Society archive. - undated — Gayre, Bodyguard (weddslist, record)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- pre 1800? (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 1322
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1154
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1154
Thread count
R/36 G8 K8 W8 G32 DB8 G32 W8 K8 R10 G8 W8 G6 R10 K/8
One full sett is 352 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) |
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/s15/r18g4k4w4g16db4g16w4k4r5g4w4g3r5k4~x2/