St Ninian's Day
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 WBRBGBGGGGGW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10282
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/2010 — St Ninian's Day (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Matthew Newsome, a governor of the STA and the Director of the Scottish Tartans Museum in Franklin, North Carolina, USA, in honour of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Scotland on 16th September 2010, St Ninian's Day. St Ninian was the earliest Christian missionary to travel to Scotland and is credited with establishing the church at Whithorn. Colours: the white and red together reflect the theme of the papal visit: 'cor ad cor loquitor' or 'heart speaks to heart' which is the motto and colours of the Arms of Cardinal Newman, beatified by Benedict XVI during his 2010 visit to the UK. White and yellow reflect the heraldic colours of the Vatican; white and blue represent Scotland and greens used were inspired by the lichens growing on the stones on Whithorn. The broad white pivot contains eight threads, one for each Roman Catholic Diocese in Scotland. The total thread count from pivot to pivot is 452, which is the number of Catholic parishes in Scotland at the time of the papal visit. - June 2010 — St. Ninian (Commemorative) (tartans-authority, record)
The choice of tartan designs was supplied by the Scottish Tartans Authority (STA) for the Catholic Media Office. Copyright of the chosen design shown here retained for the time being by the STA. Designer was Matthew Newsome, a governor of the STA and the Director of the Scottish Tartans Museum in Franklin, North Carolina, USA. Design rationale: "Created in honour of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Scotland on September 16, 2010, the feast day of St. Ninian the earliest Christian missionary to travel to Scotland who is credited with establishing the church at Whithorn. The white and red together reflect the theme of the papal visit, "Cor ad Cor Loquitor," or "Heart Speaks to Heart," the motto and the colours coming from the Arms of Cardinal Newman who was beatified by Benedict XVI during his 2010 visit to the UK. White and yellow reflect the heraldic colors of the Vatican; white and blue represent the Scottish national colours and the greens used were inspired by the lichens growing on the stones on Whithorn. The broad white pivot contains eight threads, one for each Roman Catholic Diocese in Scotland. The total thread count from pivot to pivot is 452, which is the number of Catholic parishes in Scotland at the time of the papal visit.
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
- 01/08/2010 (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: 10282
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10282
Thread count
W/8 DG2 G62 Y2 G8 DG42 DB8 DG2 DB72 R4 DB18 W/4
One full sett is 452 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| 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/s12/w4dg1g31y1g4dg21db4dg1db36r2db9w2~x2/