Crieff Highland Gathering Corporate 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 KBGBRBKBW.
Sourced from house-of-tartan. It is a 9 stripe tartan.
Original link http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/house/TartanViewjs.asp?colr=Def&tnam=11108
Provenance
Earliest known date: 2013 The colours selected for the Crieff Highland Gathering tartan, deep blue, green and purple have been used in the CHG logo for many years. They are also long established within the traditions of the Gathering, established in 1874, which runs the Crieff Highland Games. The blue relates to the Earn, the main river running through the town of Crieff and the Strathearn region. The green depicts the trees around the town. Crieff's name originates from the Scottish Gaelic word 'Craoibh' meaning 'tree'; whilst another common meaning is 'town in the valley of the trees'. The tartan's vibrant purple reflects the colour of the thistle. Thistles were incorporated into the Games as an ancient Celtic 'symbol of notability of character'. The thistle is also considered of 'high chivalric order' and Scotland's National Emblem. The Games are used by the Chieftain of the Games (in the past a Clans Chieftain) to highlight the fastest and strongest people in the area.
2 attestations — the source records this cloth was collapsed from (oldest owns this page)
- 2013 — Crieff Highland Gathering Corporate Tartan (house-of-tartan, record)
- 13/06/2014 — Crieff Highland Gathering (register-of-tartans, record)
Crieff Highland Gathering (CHG) was established in 1870 and organised their first Highland Games in August that year. The green, dark blue and purple in the tartan are taken from the CHG logo. The blue reflects the River Earn; the green represents the trees (‘craoibh’ in Gaelic, meaning 'of the trees') which are claimed to give Crieff its name; the purple recalls the Scottish thistle.
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
- 2013 (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: 11108
Thread count
K/6 DP32 DG10 DP6 O4 DP4 K24 DB46 W/4
One full sett is 262 threads.
Palette
| Colour | Shade | OKLCh |
|---|---|---|
| DB | #082077 #082077 | oklch(30.0% 0.149 265.1) |
| DG | #053819 #053819 | oklch(30.0% 0.075 151.3) |
| DP | #4B0B4F #4B0B4F | oklch(30.1% 0.125 325.4) |
| K | #000000 #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) |
| W | #F7F7F7 #F7F7F7 | oklch(97.6% 0.000 89.9) |
| O | #A65C11 #A65C11 | oklch(55.0% 0.125 58.3) |
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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