St. Andrews (Queens University)
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 GBGWBRBR.
Part of the St. Andrews tartan — the named design grouping this sett with its other cloths.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3875
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2002 — St. Andrews (Queens University) (register-of-tartans, record)
Scottish Tartans Society record states that this was adopted by Queens University, St Andrews and that its source was Bannockbane. The sett is certainly very close to that series of fashion tartans designed from the 1970s onwards. - pre 2002 — St. Andrews (Queens University) (Cor (tartans-authority, record)
STS record states that this was adopted by Queens University, St Andrews and that its source was Bannockbane. The sett is certainly very close to that series of fashion tartans designed from the 1970s onwards.
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
- 2002 (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: 3875
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1416
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1416
Thread count
DY/22 DB2 DY22 W20 DB2 R22 DB2 R/22
One full sett is 184 threads.
The source recorded this cloth as R/22 DB2 R22 DB2 W20 DY22 DB2 DY22 DB2 DY22 W20 DB2 R22 DB/2 — 344 threads; it folds to the canonical 184-thread sett above.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| 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 13662 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. The map is a flat projection of a many-dimensional space — how to read it.
ID: /variants/s8/dy11db1dy11w10db1r11db1r11~x2/