St. Giles Check
Bands: BRWRWRBRWRWR · Stripes: DB O W O W O DP O W O W O DB O W O W O DP O W O W O
This was sourced from register-of-tartans. It is a 12 band tartan.
Original link https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails.aspx?ref=3893
Register references
External register numbers recorded for this tartan.
- Scottish Register of Tartans: 3893
- Scottish Tartans Authority (ITI): 387
- Scottish Tartans World Register: 387
Thread count
DBa/12 Nb4 W4 Nb100 W4 Nb4 P12 Nb4 W4 Nb100 W4 Nb/4

Palette
Each colour and its ΔE from the base-6 reference it is a variant of.
| Colour | Shade | Base | ΔE (OKLab) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | #1474B4 #1474B4 | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| DB | #1C0070 #1C0070 | B #2A418A | 0.14 |
| DBa | #2C2C80 #2C2C80 | B #2A418A | 0.06 |
| DP | #440044 #440044 | B #2A418A | 0.18 |
| N | #5C5C5C #5C5C5C | B #2A418A | 0.15 |
| Na | #C0C0C0 #C0C0C0 | W #F7F7F7 | 0.17 |
| Nb | #888888 #888888 | R #CC0000 | 0.24 |
| P | #780078 #780078 | B #2A418A | 0.17 |
| W | #FCFCFC #FCFCFC | W #F7F7F7 | 0.01 |
Nearest tartans
The nearest existing variants by ΔTartan distance.
- European — ΔT 1.36
- RAAF #3 — ΔT 1.66
- St Giles Check Tartan Tartan Number: 387. Earliest known date: 1984 St Giles Church is in the Royal Mile, Edinburgh See products available Copyright © Blair Urquhart, Comrie, 2015 — ΔT 1.67
- St. Giles Check (Corporate) — ΔT 1.72
- St Giles, Check — ΔT 1.79
- Highland Dusk (Fashion) — ΔT 1.82
- Wyckoff, Ann Grainger Phillips — ΔT 1.83
- Reece (Name) — ΔT 1.93
- Wylie (Name) — ΔT 2.02
- Reece, Mathew — ΔT 2.14
Neighbour map
Every grey dot is one of 14313 variants placed by the first two principal components of the ΔTartan feature space (44% of its variance). Red is this tartan; blue dots are its nearest — click one to open its page.
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