O'Reilly (Estimated threadcount)

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 RBYKYKBBW.

Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 9 stripe tartan.

Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3262

2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
  • 01/01/2005 — O'Reilly (Estimated threadcount) (register-of-tartans, record)
    One of a series of Irish name tartans designed by Scotch Corner of Gateshead, England.
  • pre 2005 — O'Reilly (Name?) (tartans-authority, record)
    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 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. This threadcount should not be relied upon since it was estimated from a poor computer graphic."
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
2005 (this record)
licence
Crown copyright

Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence

  1. Scottish Register of Tartans · Crown copyright
    the living register — still published by National Records of Scotland
  2. 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
  3. 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.

Thread count

R/8 T6 LR4 K4 LR24 K4 DB20 Ti50 W/4

One full sett is 236 threads.

Sett

Palette

ColourShadeOKLCh
T#5C8CA8 #5C8CA8oklch(61.7% 0.067 235.0)
T#00879F #00879Foklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
DB#082077 #082077oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
K#000000 #000000oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0)
N#636363 #636363oklch(50.0% 0.000 89.9)
LR#A0A0A0 #A0A0A0oklch(70.6% 0.000 89.9)
R#D60020 #D60020oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
W#F7F7F7 #F7F7F7oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9)

Sample pattern

R/8 T6 LR4 K4 LR24 K4 DB20 Ti50 W/4 tartan

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.

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