Baptist Union of Scotland
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 WBGKBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 6 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=207
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 05/07/2001 — Baptist Union of Scotland (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by House of Edgar for the Baptist Union of Scotland. The weavers asked that it be noted that the Royal Blue count is deliberately an odd number (23) and should remain so. - July 2001 — Baptist Union of Scotland (Corp) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by House of Edgar for the Baptist Union of Scotland. The weavers asked that it be noted that for particular circumstances the Royal Blue count is deliberatly an odd numbered one - 23 - and should remain so.
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
- 05/07/2001 (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: 207
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 4104
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2821
Thread count
LB/4 DB23 G16 K4 DB23 LO/4
One full sett is 140 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) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
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/s6/lo4db23k4g16db23lb4/