G8 Summit
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 BGBRBYBYBYBYB.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 13 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1292
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/12/2004 — G8 Summit (register-of-tartans, record)
Winning design on behalf of the Scottish Tartans Authority in an international competition for a G8 tartan to mark the 2005 G8 Summit hosted by Scotland at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire. The Green and Purple represent the 2005 G8 Summit thistle-logo and red is the one colour present in ALL the G8 nation flags - the common thread that binds them together in their efforts to aid underdeveloped countries. There is one white line for each G8 nation which, together on the dark blue, form the white cross of St Andrew - the flag of their host nation, Scotland. 19 entries were received and an independent panel of judges (including a representative from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office) chose what they considered to be the best three which were then sent to No. 10 Downing Street where Mrs Cherie Blair (the wife of the ex British Prime Minister) made the final choice. - 2004 December — G8 Summit (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Winning design on behalf of the Scottish Tartans Authority in an international competition for a G8 tartan to mark the 2005 G8 Summit hosted by Scotland at Gleneagles Hotel in Perthshire. The Green and Purple represent the 2005 G8 Summit thistle-logo and red is the one colour present in ALL the G8 nation flags - the common thread that binds them together in their efforts to aid underdeveloped countries. There is one white line for each G8 nation which, together on the dark blue, form the white cross of St Andrew - the flag of their host nation, Scotland. 19 entries were received and an independent panel of judges (including a representative from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office) chose what they considered to be the best three which were then sent to No. 10 Downing Street where Mrs Cherie Blair (the wife of the British Prime Minister) made the final choice.
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
- 01/12/2004 (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: 1292
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 6490
Thread count
DP/8 G18 DB4 R4 DB100 LR2 DB2 LR2 DB2 LR2 DB2 LR2 DB/2
One full sett is 290 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/s13/dp4g9db2r2db50lr1db1lr1db1lr1db1lr1db1~x2/