Greig (Personal)
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 GRGWKR.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1534
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 12/12/2000 — Greig (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed for Greig and Associates of Tampa, Florida, USA 2000, an agricultural consulting firm. Ownership was later transferred to Lonmay Incorporated in 2004. Lonmay Inc later transferred ownership to Ian Greig (the designer). It is available for use by all descendents of the Greig/Grieg families to provide them with their own distinctive sept tartan. - 2000 — Greig (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
This is a private tartan and may not be offered for sale or woven without the express permission of the copyright holder. Designed by Ian Greig of Lonmay Inc. Tampa FL. USA.
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
- 12/12/2000 (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: 1534
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4076
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2820
Thread count
R/120 K4 W6 DG40 R20 DG/40
One full sett is 300 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| 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) |
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/r60k2w3dg20r10dg20~x2/