St Piran Dress District 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 RWGWGWKW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 8 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=1685
Provenance
Earliest known date: 1984 Padstow, Cornwall
4 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 1984 — St Piran Dress District Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 01/01/1985 — St. Piran Dress (register-of-tartans, record)
This is a dress version of #1618 (original Scottish Tartans Authority reference) and it is assumed that it had the same designer Sindex notes say details from Abi in 1985 plus 'Details in Scottish Tartans Society files from Donald Rawe. The rights of this tartan have now (April 2006) been taken over by Peter Morton-Nance of Gwethnoc Tartan Company of St. Austell. Woven by Marton Mills. - pre 1985 — St. Piran Dress (District) (tartans-authority, record)
This is a dress version of #1618 and it is assumed that it had the same designer Sindex notes say details from Abi in 1985 plus "Details in STS files from Donald Rawe. The rights of this tartan have now (April 2006) been taken over by Peter Morton-Nance of Gwethnoc Tartan Company of St. Austell Tel: 01726 72777. Woven by Marton Mills. 30th Jan. 2009. Peter Norton-Nance apparently now untraceable. Any enquiries on this tartan should be made to Scottoish Tartans Authority - undated — St Piran, Cornish dress (weddslist, record)
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
- 1984 (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: 3904
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 1685
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 1685
Thread count
R/8 W38 DG4 W16 DG4 W16 K76 W/8
One full sett is 324 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| R | #D60020 #D60020 | oklch(55.2% 0.224 25.5) |
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/r4w19dg2w8dg2w8k38w4~x2/