St Andrews University Corporate Tartan
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 BGKGBGKGBK.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 10 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2398
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 1998 Originally named St. Andrews International. Apparently a Gordon Paton MD, bought the company from North East Fife Enterprise Trust in 1997, the aim being to brand quality Scottish products for export worldwide. The company intended to set up a membership scheme but the company went into liquidation. The intended venue belonged to St Andrews University and it appears that the ownership of the tartan has fallen to the University and its name has been changed from 'International' to 'University' (Deirdre Kinloch Anderson, Aug 2004).No thread count given so this entry is based on an estimate from a small computer graphic. Has since been corrected to conform to the SRT (Scottish Register of Tartans)
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- pre 1998 (this record)
- licence
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Capture chain — the hands this data passed through, oldest first; each capture carries its own licence
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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
Thread count
K/6 DB4 Y6 K4 Y10 DB36 G6 K6 G4 DB/6
One full sett is 164 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/s10/k3db2y3k2y5db18g3k3g2db3x2db1204274/