Eachaidh
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 KGBBWK.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10246
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 28/10/2008 — Eachaidh (register-of-tartans, record)
The surname McGeachie is an Irish surname and a Scottish surname. In ancient times the family name in Gaelic was Mag or Mac Eachaidh (son of Eachaidh). This is a tartan for surnames or variants with origins from the Gaelic 'Eachaidh'. The tartan was created on 28th October 2008 to celebrate the Armorial House of McGeachie and McGeachie Day. - 25th Oct 2008 — Eachaidh (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
The surname McGeachie is an Irish and a Scottish surname. In ancient times the family name in Gaelic was Mag or Mac Eachaidh (son of Eachaidh). This is a tartan for surnames or variants with origins from the Gaelic 'Eachaidh'. The tartan was created on 28th October 2008 to celebrate the Armorial House of McGeachie and McGeachie Day.
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
- 28/10/2008 (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: 10246
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10246
Thread count
K/12 LB2 DR36 DB12 DG36 K/4
One full sett is 188 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/s6/k6lb1dr18db6dg18k2~x2/