Edinburgh Napier University (Corp.)
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 WYWYKGRY.
Sourced from tartans-authority. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=10005
Provenance
Earliest known date: Feb. 2009 Based on the Clan Napier sett and incorporating the colours from the University's coat of arms. Against a red background the white is predominant. The red square divided by a dark green line and a border of gold corresponds to the four red roses with fine green leaves and gold seeds, featured on the coat of arms. This red also represents the main colour of the University's logo, the red triangle. The three azure blue lines correspond to the three crescent moon shapes. Exclusively design by Kinloch Anderson for Edinburgh Napier University. Restricted availability. Please contact Kinloch Anderson regarding its use.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- Feb. 2009 — Edinburgh Napier University (Corp.) (tartans-authority, record)
Based on the Clan Napier sett and incorporating the colours from the University's coat of arms. Against a red background the white is predominant. The red square divided by a dark green line and a border of gold corresponds to the four red roses with fine green leaves and gold seeds, featured on the coat of arms. This red also represents the main colour of the University's logo, the red triangle. The three azure blue lines correspond to the three crescent moon shapes. Exclusively design by Kinloch Anderson for Edinburgh Napier University. Restricted availability. Please contact Kinloch Anderson regarding its use. - undated — Edinburgh Napier University Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
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
- Feb. 2009 (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: 10005
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 10005
Thread count
LB/8 LR8 LB8 LR10 K16 G4 R38 LY/2
One full sett is 178 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| LB | #B5BBDE #B5BBDE | oklch(79.9% 0.050 277.6) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| LR | #FF9C97 #FF9C97 | oklch(79.3% 0.119 23.2) |
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/s8/lb4lr4lb4lr5k8g2r19ly1~x2/