St. Andrews
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 BWBWBBGBGBGBGGGBGBGBGBBWBW.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 26 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3874
Provenance
Earliest known date: August 2003 Designed by Robin Elliot of Elliots of Selkirk for a company called St Andrews Ltd of 19 Rutland Square, Edinburgh. Sample in STA Collection.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/08/2003 — St. Andrews (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Robin Elliot of Elliots of Selkirk for a company called St Andrews Ltd of 19 Rutland Square, Edinburgh. Sample in Scottish Tartans Authority's Collection. Confirmed as 'official' by Royal Burgh of St Andrews Community Council on 27th November 2003. - August 2003 — St Andrews District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- 01/08/2003 (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: 3874
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 5899
Thread count
DB/96 W6 DB8 W6 DB6 T32 G4 T10 G6 T8 G8 T6 G10 DY4 G10 T6 G8 T8 G6 T10 G4 T32 DB6 W6 DB8 W/6
One full sett is 538 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| T | #00879F #00879F | oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1) |
| DB | #003C64 #003C64 | oklch(34.5% 0.089 246.0) |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| DY | #3A2B0D #3A2B0D | oklch(30.0% 0.049 82.0) |
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/s14/db48w3db4w3db3t16g2t5g3t4g4t3g5dy2x2db1106275/