Grey Breton
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 BKBKBKBKB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10608
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1 May 2012 A woven sample of this tartan has been received by the Scottish Register of Tartans for permanent preservation in the National Records of Scotland.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 05/09/2009 — Grey Breton (register-of-tartans, record)
A modern variation on the Brittany National tartan (STR ref #364). - 05/09/2009 — Grey Breton (District|) (tartans-authority, record)
A modern variation on the Brittany National tartan (STR ref #364). A woven sample of this tartan has been received by the Scottish Register of Tartans for permanent preservation in the National Records of Scotland. The grey may be a marl. - 1 May 2012 — Grey Breton District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 05/09/2009 (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: 10608
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10608
Thread count
N/14 K19 N14 K6 N14 K6 N14 K47 N/6
One full sett is 260 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| N | #636363 #636363 | oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9) |
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/n14k19n14k6n14k6n14k47n6/