Goddin mab Gododdin (Personal)
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 RYBGGYBY.
Sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=1442
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 01/01/2007 — Goddin mab Gododdin (Personal) (register-of-tartans, record)
No details known. - pre 2007 — Goddin mab Gododdin (Personal) (tartans-authority, record)
Designed by Jeremy Goddin, Morvyn Hood & Fiona Hall to reunite the scattered members of the family and to commemorate their heritage. Three natural shades of brown forming a check commemorating the Falkirk tartan, dark green commemorating the Great Wood of Caledon of which part lay within the Kingdom of Gododdin, purple commemorating the Roman connection and particularly king Patern Pesrut, and dark red in remembrance of the blood shed in 604CE at Cattraeth in defence of Gododdin and Edinburgh. The princely House of Gododdin is recorded as rulers of the Kingdom of Gododdin until about 627CE when they were overrun by the Northumbrians. The kingdom of Gododdin extended from Stirling (Iudeu), through Edinburgh (Din Eidyn), Traprain Law (Dunpelder)and Trimontium to their borders with Northumbria and Strathclyde. It included the portion of the Antonine Wall where the Falkirk tartan was concealed cica 240CE. From 627CE the family became progressively scattered with groups joining Strathclyde, their relatives in Cymru (Wales)and in Lesser Britain (Brittany). The name is Brythonic and has developed in modern Welsh to GODDIN, in Brittany to GODIN and GAUDIN. Parts of the Kingdom of Gododdin are sometimes recorded as GADDIN. The name has nothing to do with the later word GOD referring to the deity, but GOD is equivalent to GAD and denotes the Old Testament tribe of that name. This reflects the Scythian descent of the Scots recorded in the Declaration of Arbroath. The name probably comes from the Sumerian silk road village called GODIN TEKE (the settlement of GODIN)cica 3,500 BC.
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
- 2007 (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: 1442
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 7179
Thread count
R/8 LY6 DT48 DY52 G6 LY42 DP4 LY/8
One full sett is 332 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
| G | #008B2A #008B2A | oklch(55.4% 0.170 145.9) |
| DT | #023535 #023535 | oklch(29.8% 0.050 194.8) |
| LY | #DCBC32 #DCBC32 | oklch(80.0% 0.150 95.2) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| 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 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.
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