Gullane

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 KBKRWRWRWRWRWRWBWBWBWKW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 23 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1559

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/1984 — Gullane (register-of-tartans, record)
    Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Johnston Collection. Threadcount in the woven sample is about half this with a number of single white threads.
  • 1984 — Gullane (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
    Sample in STA's Johnston Collection. Threadcount in the woven sample is about half this with a number of single white threads.
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
1984 (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

K/40 N8 K12 R8 W4 R12 W4 R16 W4 O8 W4 O12 W4 O16 W4 N8 W4 N12 W4 N16 W4 K16 W/8

One full sett is 408 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)
N#5C5C5C #5C5C5Coklch(47.5% 0.000 89.9)
O#888888 #888888oklch(62.7% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)

Sample pattern

K/40 N8 K12 R8 W4 R12 W4 R16 W4 O8 W4 O12 W4 O16 W4 N8 W4 N12 W4 N16 W4 K16 W/8 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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