Commonwealth Bid (Corporate)

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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 BBWGWBBGBRBGBBWGWBBBRYRB.

Part of the Commonwealth Bid tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.

Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 24 stripe tartan.

Original link http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan-ferret/display/6811/ — retired · Internet Archive copy

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: pre 2005 (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; dead record links are shown unlinked, with an Internet Archive copy (ITI numbers are not SRT references)
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 Tartans Authority (ITI): 6811

Thread count

T/120 O14 LY4 O4 T40 DB30 T10 LB4 Y4 LB12 T10 DB4 G6 DB2 R6 DB2 G6 DB4 T10 LB12 Y4 LB4 T10 DB/30

One full sett is 554 threads.

Sett

Palette

Colour	Shade	OKLCh
T	`#00879F` #00879F	oklch(57.4% 0.102 216.1)
DB	`#082077` #082077	oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1)
O	`#A65C11` #A65C11	oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3)
G	`#008B2A` #008B2A	oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9)
LB	`#B5BBDE` #B5BBDE	oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6)
LY	`#DCBC32` #DCBC32	oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2)
R	`#D60020` #D60020	oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5)
Y	`#8B6E00` #8B6E00	oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4)

Sample pattern

T/120 O14 LY4 O4 T40 DB30 T10 LB4 Y4 LB12 T10 DB4 G6 DB2 R6 DB2 G6 DB4 T10 LB12 Y4 LB4 T10 DB/30 tartan

ID: /variants/s24/t60o7ly2o2t20db15t5lb2y2lb6t5db2g3db1r3db1g3db2t5lb6y2lb2t5db15~x2/