Leith (Hay)
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 KRGKRBRGRBRKWGRGRGRKGRKRGKRGRGRGWKRBRGRBRKGR.
Part of the Leith tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 44 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=2091
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/1819 — Leith (Hay) (register-of-tartans, record)
Originally called Hay & Leith - probably reflecting the intermarriage of those two families. Later just called Hay. Rarely seen in modern times. - 1819 — Leith & Hay (Clan) (tartans-authority, record)
Asymmetric. Originally called Hay & Leith - probably reflecting the intermarriage of those two families. Later just called Hay. Rarely seen in modern times.
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
- 1819 (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: 2091
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2131
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2131
Thread count
K/14 R4 Y4 K8 R70 DP8 R3 Y3 R8 DP64 R3 K63 W3 G64 R8 Y3 R3 G8 R70 K8 Y4 R4 K14 R4 Y4 K8 R70 G8 R3 Y3 R8 G64 W3 K63 R3 DP64 R8 Y3 R3 DP8 R70 K8 Y4 R/4
One full sett is 1690 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s23/k14r4y4k8r70dp8r3y3r8dp64r3k63w3g64r8y3r3g8r70k8y4r4k14/