Leinster Irish District Tartan
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 GKBKGKBGKGGGGGGGKGBKGKBKGR.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 26 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=4062
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1997 One of the collection of Irish tartans to acknowledge the early historical and cultural links between the Scots and the Irish. Dublin is the principal city of Leinster. Woven swatch.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- 1997 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
DG/36 K20 DB24 K2 G4 K2 DB24 DY4 K20 G4 DG4 G30 DG6 G30 DG4 G4 K20 DY4 DB24 K2 G4 K2 DB24 K20 DG36 R/6
One full sett is 678 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| G | #408060 #408060 | oklch(54.8% 0.084 160.1) |
| DG | #006818 #006818 | oklch(45.0% 0.142 145.0) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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/s26/dg18k10db12k1g2k1db12dy2k10g2dg2g15dg3g15dg2g2k10dy2db12k1g2k1db12k10dg18r3x2dg1806142-db1204274-g2203152/