Scottish Canals (Corporate)
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 GBBBGBG.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 7 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3916
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2001 Designed by Claire Donaldson of House of Edgar for BWB. Initially called Highland Canals, later changed (April 2002) to Caledonian Canal and then in January 2003 to Scottish Canals.
3 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Dec. 2001 — Scottish Canals (Corporate) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Claire Donaldson of House of Edgar for British Waterways Board. Initially called Highland Canals, later changed (April 2002) to Caledonian Canal and then in January 2003 to Scottish Canals. - 2001 — Scottish Canals Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- undated — Scottish Canals (register-of-tartans, record)
Designed by Claire Donaldson of House of Edgar for BWB. Initially called Highland Canals, later changed (April 2002) to Caledonian Canal and then in January 2003 to Scottish Canals.
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
- Dec. 2001 (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 (links repaired to the SRT, above) - 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: 5424
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 3916
Thread count
Y/4 DB52 G18 DB4 DBi58 DB2 G/4
One full sett is 276 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | oklch(35.0% 0.138 276.6) |
| DB | #202060 #202060 | oklch(28.9% 0.111 276.9) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| Y | #8B6E00 #8B6E00 | oklch(55.1% 0.113 90.4) |
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/y2db26g9db2dbi29db1g2x2db1204274-dbi1406275/