Samye
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 GRGBW.
Part of the Samye tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 5 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=5410
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/03/2007 — Samye (register-of-tartans, record)
The official tartan of Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Centre and Monastery located in Eskdalemuir, South West Scotland. 'Samye Ling' meaning 'the place beyond conception' named after the original ancient 'Samye' monastery in Tibet, was founded in 1967 by two Tibetan Lamas DR. Akong Tulku Rinpoche and the late Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. This spectacular tartan was designed by Akong Rinpoche, guardian of Tibetan tradition and enthusiastic supporter of Scottish culture. An exciting meeting point of Tibetan and Scottish tradition its five colours represent the five elements Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Space in perfect balance. Akong Rinpoche says 'when the elements are in perfect balance there is perfect harmony.' Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts Limited. - March 2007 — Samye (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Notes from STWR: The official tartan of Samye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Centre and Monastery located in Eskdalemuir, South West Scotland. "Samye Ling" meaning "the place beyond conception" named after the original ancient "Samye" monastery in Tibet, was founded in 1967 by two Tibetan Lamas DR. Akong Tulku Rinpoche and the late Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. This spectacular tartan was designed by Akong Rinpoche, guardian of Tibetan tradition and enthusiastic supporter of Scottish culture. An exciting meeting point of Tibetan and Scottish tradition its five colours represent the five elements Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Space in perfect balance. Akong Rinpoche says "when the elements are in perfect balance there is perfect harmony." Geoffrey (Tailor) Highland Crafts Limited
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
- 01/03/2007 (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: 5410
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7128
Thread count
Y/50 R20 G20 DB22 W/4
One full sett is 178 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) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s5/y25r10g10db11w2~x2/