O'Brien (Scotch Corner)
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 GGGGBRBRG.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3214
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2004 — O'Brien (Scotch Corner) (register-of-tartans, record)
One of a series of Irish name tartans designed by Scotch Corner of Gateshead, England. - pre 2004 — O'Brien #2 (Fashion) (tartans-authority, record)
For Scotch Corner. An example of not checking to see if a tartan of the same name exists. It does (#2225) and is said to have been approved by the head of the family. Scotch Corner (a company in Gateshead, England) have produced various Irish surname tartans over the years but have never advised or consulted the Scottish Tartans Authority or offered any historical evidence to their designs. Since there is no known evidence of any Irish clan/family tartans having ever existed, these should not be regarded as genuine clan/family tartans but merely fashion designs given an Irish surname. However . . . . it may be considered that this is how many of Scotland's clan tartans originally came into being so perhaps in a hundred years or so, today's inventions will be regarded as tomorrow's genuine Irish clan/family tartans. Threadcount from Alistair Buchan of Lochcarron Feb. 2003.
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
- 2004 (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: 3214
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6173
Thread count
G/72 Gi38 G8 Gi62 T4 R6 T4 R6 Gi/24
One full sett is 352 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #289C18 #289C18 | oklch(60.6% 0.191 141.6) |
| G | #5C6428 #5C6428 | oklch(48.3% 0.084 116.0) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
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/s9/g36gi19g4gi31t2r3t2r3gi12x2g1903114-gi2408144/