Lyon (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 BKBKBKGWBWGKBKB.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 15 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5517
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1999 — Lyon (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Same as Black Watch but with black stripe on green changed to blue with white guards. As such it is similar to Polaris which has black and yellow guards. Date not specified. 'Tartans (Johnston/Smith 1999) calls it LyonS. - 01/01/2002 — Lyon (register-of-tartans, record)
Same as Black Watch but with black stripe on green changed to blue with white guards. As such it is similar to Polaris which has black and yellow guards. Date not specified. 'Tartans (Johnston/Smith 1999) calls it Lyons.
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 1999 (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: 2256
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5517
Thread count
T/32 K4 T4 K4 T4 K20 G23 W2 T5 W2 G23 K20 T22 K4 T/4
One full sett is 310 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| 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) |
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/t32k4t4k4t4k20g23w2t5w2g23k20t22k4t4/