St Johnstone F.C. Corporate Sport Tartan
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 KWKBYBWBYBKW.
Part of the St. Johnstone F.C. tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 12 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=2425
Provenance
Earliest known date: pre 1996 Observed in a kiltmaker's shop in Perth in 1996 and was told that a newer one was on its way. Note: St Johnstones or the 'Saints' is Perth's football team.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- pre 1996 — St Johnstone F.C. Corporate Sport Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1997 — St. Johnstone Football Club (register-of-tartans, record)
Observed in a kiltmaker's shop in Perth in 1996 and was told that a newer one was on its way. Note: St Johnstones or the 'Saints' is Perth's football team.
Dataset — provenance for this record, inherited from the source manifest
- source
- House of Tartan
- data captured from
- https://github.com/thetartan/tartan-database/blob/master/data/house-of-tartan/data.csv
- data date
- pre 1996 (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
- House of Tartan
the weaver/retailer's database — the site is now offline; the URL is kept as the ultimate source's identity - 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: 3895
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 2425
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 2425
Thread count
K/24 LB12 K32 DB28 LO8 DB28 LB4 DB28 LO8 DB28 K32 LB/12
One full sett is 452 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | oklch(26.3% 0.162 277.1) |
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| LO | #FF9C34 #FF9C34 | oklch(77.9% 0.161 61.8) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
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/s7/k6lb3k8db7lo2db7lb1x4db1406275/