St. Mirren (Corporate)
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 BBBBKBKBKBKB.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=7745
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- August 2008 — St. Mirren (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Ken MacDonald of Houston Kilts, Paisley as an addition to his in-house range of tartans, Although called St. Mirren it has no direct connection with the Paisley football team but Houston Kilts will be paying a small royalty to the club for the use of their name. Saint Mirin or Mirren was an Irish monk and missionary (circa 565 - 620 BC) also known as Mirren of Benchor (now called Bangor in Wales) He is the patron saint of the town of Paisley in Scotland and was the founder of a religious community which grew to become Paisley Abbey. His shrine in thje abbey becamea centre of pilgrimage. - undated — St. Mirren (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Ken MacDonald of Houston Kilts, Paisley as an addition to his in-house range of tartans, Although called St. Mirren it has no direct connection with the Paisley football team but Houston Kilts will be paying a small royalty to the club for the use of their name. Saint Mirin or Mirren was an Irish monk and missionary (circa 565 - 620 BC) also known as Mirren of Benchor (now called Bangor in Wales). He is the patron saint of the town of Paisley in Scotland and was the founder of a religious community which grew to become Paisley Abbey. His shrine in the abbey becamea centre of pilgrimage.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- Scottish Tartans Authority
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/tartans-authority/data.csv
- data date
- August 2008 (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
- Scottish Tartans Authority
the heritage body's archive — its tartan-ferret record browser is retired (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5726
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7745
Thread count
DTi/10 K4 DT16 K4 DT10 K16 DT8 K24 DT28 DR3 DTi4 DR/3
One full sett is 247 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DT | #343434 #343434 | oklch(32.5% 0.000 89.9) |
| DR | #55120C #55120C | oklch(30.0% 0.099 29.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| DT | #404040 #404040 | oklch(37.1% 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/s12/dti10k4dt16k4dt10k16dt8k24dt28dr3dti4dr3~dti1500000-dt1300000/